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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 first love not need according to the author?
(a) Attention.
(b) Fame.
(c) Money.
(d) Support.

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

3. To what does the author compare the engagement period?
(a) The time it takes many people to dive into the water when they go swimming.
(b) The time one spends at the hair salon.
(c) Being held underwater, dying for a gasp of fresh air.
(d) Being tortured on the rack.

4. What is the author of the letter accustomed to writing on?
(a) Parchment.
(b) Tablets of stone.
(c) Papyrus.
(d) Full sheets.

5. What does the author say that every order of life, including marriage, has?
(a) Traitors.
(b) Plebeians.
(c) Paragons.
(d) Workers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first subject Kierkegaard discusses?

2. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?

3. Why is "sympathetic" depression noble according to the author of the letter?

4. The author asserts that just as nothing is impossible for God, nothing is impossible for whom?

5. Why does the author suggest the young man may be "depressed" and fear marriage?

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