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

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

3. What is the author's stated attitude toward these feelings?
(a) The author writes that the feelings are the best kind of feelings.
(b) The author writes that the feelings are aberrant.
(c) The author writes that the feelings are entirely natural.
(d) The author writes that the feelings are disturbing.

4. What is the quality of marital love's movements?
(a) Marital love's movements are outward.
(b) Marital love's movements are inward.
(c) Marital love's movements are quick.
(d) Marital love's movements are slow.

5. What does the author say his era has discerned about romantic love very well?
(a) The weakness of it.
(b) The strength of it.
(c) The fleeting quality of it.
(d) The non-existence of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of what two things is first love a unity?

2. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?

3. The author claims what kind of feelings toward his wife?

4. What does the author say one must transform to preserve the aesthetic in human beings?

5. What does the author believe accounts for the young man's excessive anxiety?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the author's stated intention?

2. What does the author write about humility in love?

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

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

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

6. Why does the author say that first love is found more frequently in women than men?

7. What does the author write about egotistic depression?

8. How does the author define and marriage of convenience?

9. How many types of love does the author write there are? What are they?

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

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