2. What does David understand about the parable?
(a) David does not understand the parable at all.
(b) David understands the message of the parable.
(c) David understands how the parable applies to him.
(d) David understands Nathan is merely trying to manipulate him.

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

4. Why is "sympathetic" depression noble according to the author of the letter?
(a) The author has proclaimed it!
(b) "Sympathetic" depression is highly attractive in a young man.
(c) "Sympathetic" depression is the depression of the landed gentry.
(d) "Sympathetic" depression is for the sake of another.

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

6. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?
(a) The jellyfish.
(b) The elephant.
(c) The tiger.
(d) The catfish.

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

8. What does the author say romantic love is built on?
(a) An ocean.
(b) An illusion.
(c) A rock.
(d) An undeniable reality.

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

10. What is the only way the author claims he would ever wish to be in relation to his wife?
(a) Submissive.
(b) Dominant.
(c) Polygamous.
(d) Monogamous.

11. Why does the author suggest the young man may be "depressed" and fear marriage?
(a) The young man may be thinking, "She doesn't really love me; all love is false."
(b) Perhaps the young man has not been taking his medication.
(c) 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."
(d) The young man's parents were unhappy in their marriage and abused him all his life.

12. What is the only thing for which the author thanks God with his whole soul?
(a) That his wife is the last person he will ever love.
(b) That his wife has many hobbies which keep her occupied.
(c) That his wife is the only woman he has ever loved.
(d) That his wife loves him with all her heart.

13. What is the first subject Kierkegaard discusses?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Passion.
(d) Friendship.

14. 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 sexiness.
(d) A quality of ephemerality.

15. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?
(a) Love torment and marriage is peace.
(b) Love is irrelevant and marriage is significant.
(c) Love is false and marriage is true.
(d) Love is heaven and marriage is hell.