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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 is the author of the letter accustomed to writing on?
(a) Papyrus.
(b) Parchment.
(c) Full sheets.
(d) Tablets of stone.

2. First love is equivalent to what type of faith according to the author?
(a) The type of faith the poor have.
(b) The type of faith that believes itself capable of moving mountains.
(c) The type of faith the haughty and vain have.
(d) The type of faith that believes there has never been anything but itself.

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

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

5. In what form is EITHER/OR written?
(a) In the form of a lecture.
(b) In the form of a casual conversation.
(c) In the form of a code.
(d) In the form of an epistle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?

2. What is love according to the author?

3. Between what two types of doubt does the author say it is important to distinguish?

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

5. What does the author say he hates?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author write about egotistic depression?

2. Describe what the author writes are the necessary inward conditions for marriage?

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

4. How does the author compare the young man to an insane man?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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