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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who has lost himself in another according to the author?
(a) The one who hates.
(b) The one who loves.
(c) The one who dodges bullets.
(d) The one who laughs.

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

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) The author says the young man lives by plundering.
(c) All of these.
(d) The author says the young man lives by stealing happy moments.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?

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

5. What does the author say that every order of life, including marriage, has?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the author write that marriage belongs to Christianity?

2. What is the author's stated intention?

3. How does the author describe romantic love?

4. What does the author write about egotistic depression?

5. What does the author write is "unhappy love?"

6. Describe the fantasy marriage the author proposes to the young man.

7. What does the author assert is the principle reason for marrying?

8. What are some immoral motivations for marrying according to the author?

9. In what kind of moment does the author write he hopes his letter finds the young man, and why?

10. What does the author say to the suggestion that the wedding ceremony "halts lovers"?

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