What Helped to Create and Perpetuate Belief in Love at First

Multiple Choice

What helped to create and perpetuate belief in love at first sight and the notion that true love often involves overcoming adversity and living "happily ever after"?

A) novels like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, published in the early 1800s
B) new laws making it possible for people to go public with relationships that were at one time considered taboo
C) reality television
D) the decrease in leisure time, required for serial dating, among the middle class associated with the onset of capitalism
E) the increasing acceptability of divorce in the United States and in Europe