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Either/Or Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 136 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say first love is for him?
(a) A catch phrase.
(b) A good word.
(c) A password.
(d) A bad word.

2. In addition to having a priority in itself, what other quality does marital love possess according to the author?
(a) Constancy.
(b) Profligacy.
(c) Ephemerality.
(d) Uncertainty.

3. What system does the author say he observed while he was a guest in the home of a young married couple?
(a) The secrecy system.
(b) The Stanislavsky system.
(c) The fairness system.
(d) The silent system.

4. To what does the author of the letter compare the young man at the end of this section?
(a) The author compares the young man to an actor.
(b) The author compares the young man to a bull rider.
(c) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.
(d) The author compares the young man to the pilot of a ship.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does first love not fear according to the author?

2. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?

3. At what moment is love annihilated according to the author?

4. What is love according to the author?

5. From who does the author say the secrecy system generally comes?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author write about his feelings of devotion for his wife?

2. How is first love the unification of freedom and necessity?

3. What is the author's stated intention?

4. What interests the author in a certain engraving dramatizing the story of Cain and Abel?

5. How does the author describe romantic love?

6. How many types of love does the author write there are? What are they?

7. What does the author write about egotistic depression?

8. What does the author say to the suggestion that the wedding ceremony "halts lovers"?

9. Why does the author write that an exploration of the aesthetic significance of marriage might seem superfluous?

10. How does the author relate religion to swimming?

(see the answer keys)

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