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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does the author say has triumphed?
(a) The man who dominates his wife.
(b) The man who puts the state of his relationship with his wife at the top of his list of concerns.
(c) The man who earns enough money to provide for his family.
(d) The man who defeats all of his adversaries in business.

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

4. Why does the author suggest the young man may be "depressed" and fear marriage?
(a) Perhaps the young man has not been taking his medication.
(b) The young man may be thinking, "Everything may change; what if this person that now I almost worship may change; what if, what if, etc."
(c) The young man's parents were unhappy in their marriage and abused him all his life.
(d) The young man may be thinking, "She doesn't really love me; all love is false."

5. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?
(a) By being a process of destroying.
(b) By being a process of dominating.
(c) By being a process of history.
(d) By being a process of assimilation.

6. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?
(a) Drug taking.
(b) Sexual intercourse.
(c) Clutching the enjoyment in the consciousness that it may vanish in the next moment.
(d) Dreaming as if you would live forever.

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

8. 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 love and hate.
(d) The middle course is the path between comfort and tribulation.

9. What is the only thing for which the author prays to God with his whole heart?
(a) That God will give him the judgement to know when his wife is lying.
(b) That God will give him the strength to move on after his wife stops loving him.
(c) That God will give him the strength never to want to love another woman.
(d) That God will give him the patience to put up with his wife's nagging.

10. What moment does the newly married couple attempt to postpone?
(a) The moment the couple realizes they are bored.
(b) The moment of tenderness.
(c) The moment of risk.
(d) The moment of consummation.

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

12. What idea does the insane man, of whom the author writes, have fixed in his head?
(a) The insane man has the idea that his mattress is full of butterflies.
(b) The insane man has the idea that his apartment is full of flies.
(c) The insane man has the idea that his veins are filled with oil.
(d) The insane man has the idea that his heart is full of spiders.

13. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?
(a) The author writes that the feelings are entirely natural.
(b) The author writes that the feelings are the best kind of feelings.
(c) The author writes that the feelings are aberrant.
(d) The author writes that the feelings are disturbing.

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

15. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?
(a) The connection is immoral and fragile.
(b) The connection is safe but unrewarding.
(c) The connection is sexy and suffocating.
(d) The connection is moral but shallow.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author believe accounts for the young man's excessive anxiety?

2. In what form is EITHER/OR written?

3. What is David unable to appreciate about the parable?

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

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

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