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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Byron declare about love according to the author?
(a) Love is heaven and marriage is hell.
(b) Love is false and marriage is true.
(c) Love is irrelevant and marriage is significant.
(d) Love torment and marriage is peace.

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

3. What is adversity according to the author?
(a) Part of marriage.
(b) The end of one's life.
(c) The beginning of a love affair.
(d) The death of marriage.

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

5. Into what two categories does the author say he can divide the difficulties in marriage?
(a) Serious and trivial.
(b) Kind and cruel.
(c) Inner and outer.
(d) Sweet and bitter.

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

7. To what religion does the author say marriage belongs?
(a) Hinduism.
(b) Christianity.
(c) Islam.
(d) Buddhism.

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

9. Who does the author say has triumphed?
(a) The man who earns enough money to provide for his family.
(b) The man who puts the state of his relationship with his wife at the top of his list of concerns.
(c) The man who dominates his wife.
(d) The man who defeats all of his adversaries in business.

10. What does the author say first love is for him?
(a) A bad word.
(b) A good word.
(c) A password.
(d) A catch phrase.

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

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

13. Between what two things does the writer say there may exist a significant difference?
(a) There may be a significant difference between the type of wedding reception the bride wants and the type of wedding reception the groom prefers.
(b) There may be a significant difference between how the young man really feels and what the wedding is like.
(c) There may be a significant difference between the time the wedding is scheduled to start and when it actually starts.
(d) There may be a significant difference between how the in-laws are before the wedding and after the wedding.

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

15. When discussing adversity with the young man, against what does the author warn?
(a) Eccentricity.
(b) Arbitrariness.
(c) Promiscuity.
(d) Thoughtlessness.

Short Answer Questions

1. In discussing the the aesthetic of marriage, upon what does the author of the letter draw?

2. The author asserts that just as nothing is impossible for God, nothing is impossible for whom?

3. What does the author say the actual experience of love is?

4. Every coming into existence, according to the author, always has an element of what?

5. Why is "sympathetic" depression noble according to the author of the letter?

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