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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) Depression.
(d) Ambivalence.

2. 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.

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

4. What does the author say romantic love is built on?
(a) An ocean.
(b) A rock.
(c) An undeniable reality.
(d) An illusion.

5. According to the author, what is the lifeblood of marriage?
(a) Openness on a large scale.
(b) Frankness.
(c) Uprightness.
(d) All of these.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the only way the author claims he would ever wish to be in relation to his wife?

2. What creature sends the author into "reverie"?

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

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

5. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author write first love is for "happy individualities?"

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

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

4. What is the author's attitude toward "first love"?

5. What interests the author in a certain engraving dramatizing the story of Cain and Abel?

6. Why does the author write that an exploration of the aesthetic significance of marriage might seem superfluous?

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

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

9. Describe the church wedding that the author says caused the young man to fume.

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

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