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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. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?
(a) Satan.
(b) Nature.
(c) God.
(d) The Virgin Mary.

2. What does the author say the actual experience of love is?
(a) A pretty song.
(b) Deeply painful.
(c) A falling backward.
(d) An awakening.

3. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?
(a) The author draws on examples from his own marriage.
(b) The author draws on examples from his friend's marriage.
(c) The author draws on invented examples of marriage.
(d) The author draws on examples from Confucius's marriage.

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

5. To whom does the author compare the young man when he is ill-tempered?
(a) Pontius Pilate.
(b) King David.
(c) Herod.
(d) Mohammed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say his era has discerned about romantic love very well?

2. What occasion caused the young man to fume according to the author?

3. What is the only thing for which the author thanks God with his whole soul?

4. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?

5. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does the author say that first love is found more frequently in women than men?

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

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

7. What is the author's stated intention?

8. When does the secretiveness about which the author writes gain its strength?

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

10. What does the author write is "unhappy love?"

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