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

2. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?
(a) Whether Christ physically rose from the dead.
(b) Whether Christ was born in December or July.
(c) Whether Christ was literally an incarnation of almighty God.
(d) Whether Christ was ugly or handsome.

3. From who does the author say the secrecy system generally comes?
(a) The priests.
(b) The women.
(c) The men.
(d) The parents.

4. How does the author say he must always be with the young man?
(a) Cautious.
(b) Frivolous.
(c) Gentle.
(d) Firm.

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

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

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

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

9. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?
(a) Messages from yourself.
(b) Messages in bottles.
(c) Messages from distant cousins.
(d) Messages from God.

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

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

12. According to the author, what happens to the value of an original, or first, thing if it may be repeated?
(a) The value decreases.
(b) The value increases.
(c) The first thing never had any value.
(d) The value remains the same.

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

14. 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 loves him with all her heart.
(d) That his wife is the only woman he has ever loved.

15. What is the quality of marital love's movements?
(a) Marital love's movements are outward.
(b) Marital love's movements are slow.
(c) Marital love's movements are quick.
(d) Marital love's movements are inward.

Short Answer Questions

1. Between what two things does the writer say there may exist a significant difference?

2. What is the middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?

3. From whom does King David hear a parable?

4. Which part of the wedding does the author find rather backward?

5. What does first love not need according to the author?

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