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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 the actual experience of love is?
(a) An awakening.
(b) Deeply painful.
(c) A pretty song.
(d) A falling backward.

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

3. What system does the author say he observed while he was a guest in the home of a young married couple?
(a) The fairness system.
(b) The secrecy system.
(c) The silent system.
(d) The Stanislavsky system.

4. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
(a) The erotic.
(b) The cruel.
(c) The eternal.
(d) The temporal.

5. 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 an actor.
(c) The author compares the young man to a blushing bride.
(d) The author compares the young man to a bull rider.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what moment is love annihilated according to the author?

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

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

4. How does the author say the young man may best perceive the state that precedes first love?

5. What does the author say can crush the aesthetic in a human being?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does the author distinguish between the erotic embrace and the marital embrace?

4. What does the author say could seriously tempt him to write books?

5. What is significant about the author's reference to the biblical story of King David and the prophet Nathan?

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

7. Why are erotic love and marriage irreconcilable according to the author?

8. Why does the author say that dealing with the young man is a most difficult task?

9. What does the author write about his feelings of devotion for his wife?

10. When does the secretiveness about which the author writes gain its strength?

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