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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 claim Martin Luther said a Christian has never died of?
(a) Hunger.
(b) Typhoid.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Unkindness.

2. What happens to the person who profits by being secretive according to the author?
(a) He is always tortured.
(b) He always comes in third.
(c) He always loses.
(d) He always wins.

3. What does the author say his era has discerned about romantic love very well?
(a) The strength of it.
(b) The fleeting quality of it.
(c) The weakness of it.
(d) The non-existence of it.

4. To what religion does the author say marriage belongs?
(a) Christianity.
(b) Buddhism.
(c) Hinduism.
(d) Islam.

5. What does an individual become when his heart is open according to the author?
(a) Vengeful.
(b) Inarticulate.
(c) Merciful.
(d) Eloquent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?

2. What does the author say the young man he is writing to wants to be?

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

4. What system does the author say he observed while he was a guest in the home of a young married couple?

5. What is the relationship between marriage and first love according to the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author compare the young man to an insane man?

2. Why does the author write that marriage belongs to Christianity?

3. Why are erotic love and marriage irreconcilable according to the author?

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

5. What does the author write first love is for "happy individualities?"

6. Why does the author say that dealing with the young man is a most difficult task?

7. What does the author write about humility in love?

8. What is the author's problem with the vows in the marriage ceremony?

9. Describe the fantasy marriage the author proposes to the young man.

10. In what kind of moment does the author write he hopes his letter finds the young man, and why?

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