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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author believe accounts for the young man's excessive anxiety?
(a) The author believes the young man is afraid of death.
(b) The author believes the young man is afraid of his father.
(c) The author believes the young man is afraid of missing all the frivolity of the engagement period.
(d) The author believes the young man is afraid of missing the erotic moment.

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

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

4. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?
(a) A quality of lameness.
(b) A quality of duplexity.
(c) A quality of ephemerality.
(d) A quality of sexiness.

5. What is the opening phrase of the work?
(a) "Red Fox to Chrome Eagle:".
(b) "Dear Friend,".
(c) "Hey, guy,".
(d) "Ladies and Gentlemen,".

6. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
(a) The erotic.
(b) The eternal.
(c) The cruel.
(d) The temporal.

7. To what does the author of the letter compare the young man at the end of this section?
(a) The author compares the young man to a bull rider.
(b) The author compares the young man to an actor.
(c) The author compares the young man to the pilot of a ship.
(d) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.

8. In what form is EITHER/OR written?
(a) In the form of an epistle.
(b) In the form of a code.
(c) In the form of a casual conversation.
(d) In the form of a lecture.

9. The author asserts that just as nothing is impossible for God, nothing is impossible for whom?
(a) The religious individual.
(b) The pure individual.
(c) The humble individual.
(d) The powerful individual.

10. According to the author, an esthetically beautiful marriage is always a what?
(a) A dull one.
(b) A happy one.
(c) A sad one.
(d) An exhilarating one.

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

12. 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 patience to put up with his wife's nagging.
(c) That God will give him the strength never to want to love another woman.
(d) That God will give him the strength to move on after his wife stops loving him.

13. What is the relationship between marriage and first love according to the author?
(a) Marriage is the annihilation of first love.
(b) Marriage is the transfiguration of first love.
(c) There is no relationship between marriage and first love according to the author.
(d) Marriage is the equivalent of first love.

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

15. What does the author say that every order of life, including marriage, has?
(a) Traitors.
(b) Workers.
(c) Paragons.
(d) Plebeians.

Short Answer Questions

1. What one word does the author say can describe love?

2. Why is the author accustomed to writing on this particular object?

3. Where does the author say the young man might be intoxicated by aesthetic pleasure?

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

5. According to the author, what is the lifeblood of marriage?

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