This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 1, Either/Or : Chapter 3, Aesthetic Validation of Marriage - First Love.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say that the first love always is?
(a) A profound evil.
(b) An unavoidable necessity.
(c) A terrific bore.
(d) The highest earthly good.

2. What is the middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?
(a) The middle course is the path between comfort and tribulation.
(b) The middle course is the path between love and hate.
(c) The middle course is the path between youth and maturity.
(d) The middle course is the path between immediate love, and calculating understanding.

3. Of what two things is first love a unity?
(a) Freedom and necessity.
(b) Hot and cold.
(c) Passion and indifference.
(d) Love and hate.

4. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?
(a) Drinking and drug taking.
(b) Praying all day and all night.
(c) Attempting to help every person they come across.
(d) Self-tormenting and annihilation of the physical.

5. How does the author say the young man may best perceive the state that precedes first love?
(a) By recalling that love makes one fly.
(b) By recalling that love makes one feel quite good.
(c) By recalling that love makes one lost.
(d) By recalling that love makes one blind.