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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 romantic love is built on?
(a) A rock.
(b) An undeniable reality.
(c) An illusion.
(d) An ocean.

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

3. What does the author assert reflective love does?
(a) Consumes itself.
(b) Hates itself.
(c) The author asserts reflective love does not exist.
(d) Renews itself.

4. Between what two types of doubt does the author say it is important to distinguish?
(a) Personal and scientific doubt.
(b) Temporal and eternal doubt.
(c) Religious and erotic doubt.
(d) No doubt and full doubt.

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

6. What does the author say can crush the aesthetic in a human being?
(a) Nothing can crush the aesthetic in a human being.
(b) A Man.
(c) An act of cruelty.
(d) A Woman.

7. What occasion caused the young man to fume according to the author?
(a) A birthday party.
(b) A church wedding.
(c) A funeral.
(d) A Mayday party.

8. What does an individual become when his heart is open according to the author?
(a) Eloquent.
(b) Vengeful.
(c) Inarticulate.
(d) Merciful.

9. In addition to having a priority in itself, what other quality does marital love possess according to the author?
(a) Ephemerality.
(b) Uncertainty.
(c) Profligacy.
(d) Constancy.

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

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

12. According to the author, what is the lifeblood of marriage?
(a) All of these.
(b) Frankness.
(c) Uprightness.
(d) Openness on a large scale.

13. What does the author say the young man he is writing to wants to be?
(a) A pig.
(b) A priest.
(c) An archangel.
(d) Fate.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only thing for which the author prays to God with his whole heart?

2. What aspect of love does the author say is momentary?

3. How does the author say he must always be with the young man?

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

5. To what does the author compare the engagement period?

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