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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 middle course that the "marriage of convenience" takes according to the author?
(a) The middle course is the path between love and hate.
(b) The middle course is the path between comfort and tribulation.
(c) The middle course is the path between youth and maturity.
(d) The middle course is the path between immediate love, and calculating understanding.

2. What does the author say is the defect of his era?
(a) Ambivalence.
(b) Frivolity.
(c) Facism.
(d) Depression.

3. Every coming into existence, according to the author, always has an element of what?
(a) Polemic.
(b) Stepping back.
(c) Flying.
(d) Caressing.

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

5. What does first love not need according to the author?
(a) Money.
(b) Support.
(c) Fame.
(d) Attention.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does first love not fear according to the author?

3. How does marital love manifest itself as historical?

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

5. What does David understand about the parable?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How is first love the unification of freedom and necessity?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the author's stated intention?

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