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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does giving of thanks have on first love?
(a) Giving of thanks augments first love.
(b) Giving of thanks has no effect on first love.
(c) Giving of thanks decreases first love.
(d) Giving of thanks changes first love to hatred.

2. Where does the author say the young man might be intoxicated by aesthetic pleasure?
(a) A baseball game.
(b) A cricket match.
(c) An art gallery.
(d) The theatre.

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

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

5. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?
(a) Enthusiasm.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Indifference.
(d) Romance.

6. How does the author describe a couple's connection in a marriage of convenience?
(a) The connection is immoral and fragile.
(b) The connection is moral but shallow.
(c) The connection is safe but unrewarding.
(d) The connection is sexy and suffocating.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To what religion does the author say marriage belongs?

3. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?

4. What is adversity according to the author?

5. When discussing adversity with the young man, against what does the author warn?

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