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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Of what two things is first love a unity?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Passion and indifference.
(c) Hot and cold.
(d) Freedom and necessity.

3. To whom does the author compare the young man when he is ill-tempered?
(a) Mohammed.
(b) Herod.
(c) Pontius Pilate.
(d) King David.

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

5. At what moment is love annihilated according to the author?
(a) The moment it becomes hate.
(b) The moment it becomes conscious of itself.
(c) The moment it sins.
(d) The moment it doubts.

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

7. What does the author say he hates?
(a) All imaginary constructing.
(b) All women.
(c) All modern architecture.
(d) All purple drapes.

8. 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 the pilot of a ship.
(b) The author compares the young man to a bull rider.
(c) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.
(d) The author compares the young man to an actor.

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

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

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

12. What does the author say God's love is?
(a) Understandable.
(b) Indiscriminate.
(c) Cruel.
(d) Incomprehensible.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say that the first love always is?

2. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?

3. Into what two categories does the author say he can divide the difficulties in marriage?

4. The author claims what kind of feelings toward his wife?

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

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