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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Every coming into existence, according to the author, always has an element of what?
(a) Flying.
(b) Stepping back.
(c) Polemic.
(d) Caressing.

4. What does first love not need according to the author?
(a) Money.
(b) Fame.
(c) Support.
(d) Attention.

5. The author claims what kind of feelings toward his wife?
(a) Feelings of anger.
(b) Feelings of sadness.
(c) Feelings of devotion.
(d) Feelings of anxiety.

6. Who has lost himself in another according to the author?
(a) The one who dodges bullets.
(b) The one who loves.
(c) The one who laughs.
(d) The one who hates.

7. To what kind of wedding ceremony does the author of the letter refer?
(a) A United Methodist ceremony.
(b) A Presbyterian ceremony.
(c) A Roman Catholic ceremony.
(d) A Danish Lutheran ceremony.

8. Which part of the wedding does the author find rather backward?
(a) The author thinks "as long as you both shall live" is a little extreme.
(b) The author thinks the man ought to wear the dress and the woman the tuxedo.
(c) The author thinks it incorrect that he is supposed to be in charge of his wife.
(d) The author thinks he ought to be able to have as many love affairs as he likes.

9. What does the author say is the defect of his era?
(a) Depression.
(b) Frivolity.
(c) Ambivalence.
(d) Facism.

10. What does the author say that the first love always is?
(a) A profound evil.
(b) The highest earthly good.
(c) A terrific bore.
(d) An unavoidable necessity.

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

12. According to the author, true marriage includes the religious and what other element?
(a) The fated.
(b) The sacrilegious.
(c) The pure.
(d) The erotic.

13. Into what two categories does the author say he can divide the difficulties in marriage?
(a) Kind and cruel.
(b) Serious and trivial.
(c) Inner and outer.
(d) Sweet and bitter.

14. What is ostensibly one of the most respectable reasons for getting married according to the author?
(a) To enoble one's character.
(b) To test one's patience.
(c) There is no respectable reason for getting married.
(d) To do penance.

15. What is the author's answer to the claim that poverty may be a serious difficulty for marriage?
(a) Pray.
(b) Love.
(c) Eat.
(d) Work.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author of the letter, to what does a religious person refer everything?

2. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?

3. What is the opening phrase of the work?

4. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?

5. What does the author assert reflective love does?

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