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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How is it said that married folk should live according to the author?
(a) In never-ending bliss.
(b) In good understanding of one another.
(c) In utter silence.
(d) In confusion.

6. 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 how the parable applies to him.
(d) David understands the message of the parable.

7. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?
(a) Self-tormenting and annihilation of the physical.
(b) Attempting to help every person they come across.
(c) Drinking and drug taking.
(d) Praying all day and all night.

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

9. Who is the only one who has a true conception of who he is according to the author?
(a) The man who meditates on mountain tops.
(b) The man who is self-sufficient.
(c) The man who loves.
(d) The man who can fight.

10. What character in opera does the author say embodies the state preceding love?
(a) Wotan in THE RING CYCLE.
(b) Don Giovanni in DON GIOVANNI.
(c) Tristan in TRISTAN AND ISOLDE.
(d) Page in FIGARO.

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

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

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

14. How does the author say the young man lives?
(a) The author says the young man lives by creeping up unnoticed on people.
(b) The author says the young man lives by stealing happy moments.
(c) All of these.
(d) The author says the young man lives by plundering.

15. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?
(a) The author draws on examples from his own marriage.
(b) The author draws on examples from Confucius's marriage.
(c) The author draws on invented examples of marriage.
(d) The author draws on examples from his friend's marriage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?

2. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?

3. What is the quality of marital love's movements?

4. Of what two things is first love a unity?

5. According to the author, true marriage includes the religious and what other element?

(see the answer keys)

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