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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 are the excesses of the mystics according to the author of the letter?
(a) Praying all day and all night.
(b) Self-tormenting and annihilation of the physical.
(c) Attempting to help every person they come across.
(d) Drinking and drug taking.

2. How ought we deal with the frail according to the author?
(a) We ought to be polite to the frail in their presence and save our snickering for when they are gone.
(b) We ought to speak very slowly to the frail.
(c) We ought to deal with the frail lovingly.
(d) We ought to kick the frail down the stairs.

3. What does the author say can crush the aesthetic in a human being?
(a) A Woman.
(b) A Man.
(c) An act of cruelty.
(d) Nothing can crush the aesthetic in a human being.

4. What is the author's answer to the claim that poverty may be a serious difficulty for marriage?
(a) Pray.
(b) Work.
(c) Eat.
(d) Love.

5. The author asserts that it might seem proper for marital love to begin with a kind of what?
(a) Indifference.
(b) Doubt.
(c) Romance.
(d) Enthusiasm.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the author claim Martin Luther said a Christian has never died of?

3. What is love according to the author?

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

5. What does the author say that the first love always is?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is the author's stated intention?

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

8. How does the author describe romantic love?

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

10. Why does the author compare the young man to King Herod?

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