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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Between what two things does the writer say there may exist a significant difference?
(a) There may be a significant difference between how the in-laws are before the wedding and after the wedding.
(b) There may be a significant difference between the time the wedding is scheduled to start and when it actually starts.
(c) There may be a significant difference between the type of wedding reception the bride wants and the type of wedding reception the groom prefers.
(d) There may be a significant difference between how the young man really feels and what the wedding is like.

2. What does the author claim Martin Luther said a Christian has never died of?
(a) Typhoid.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Unkindness.

3. What is the second subject Kierkegaard examines?
(a) Messages from God.
(b) Messages in bottles.
(c) Messages from distant cousins.
(d) Messages from yourself.

4. What does the author say God's love is?
(a) Understandable.
(b) Cruel.
(c) Indiscriminate.
(d) Incomprehensible.

5. Who has lost himself in another according to the author?
(a) The one who dodges bullets.
(b) The one who hates.
(c) The one who laughs.
(d) The one who loves.

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

7. What does the author say would be a matter of indifference to Christians?
(a) Whether Christ was born in December or July.
(b) Whether Christ was ugly or handsome.
(c) Whether Christ physically rose from the dead.
(d) Whether Christ was literally an incarnation of almighty God.

8. Who does Kirkegaard explain the letter was intended for?
(a) Joel.
(b) Bathsheba.
(c) A young man.
(d) Nathan.

9. What does the author say one must transform to preserve the aesthetic in human beings?
(a) One must transform suffering into joy.
(b) One must transform beauty into pain.
(c) One must transform lemons into lemonade.
(d) One must transform outer trials into inner trials.

10. The author asserts that just as nothing is impossible for God, nothing is impossible for whom?
(a) The pure individual.
(b) The humble individual.
(c) The religious individual.
(d) The powerful individual.

11. Why is the author accustomed to writing on this particular object?
(a) Because he lives in ancient Egypt.
(b) Because he is a public official.
(c) Because he lives in modern India.
(d) Because he is blind.

12. What quality does the author say love shares with everything eternal?
(a) A quality of sexiness.
(b) A quality of ephemerality.
(c) A quality of lameness.
(d) A quality of duplexity.

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

14. From whom does King David hear a parable?
(a) The prophet Joel.
(b) The prophet Habbakuk.
(c) The prophet Ezra.
(d) The prophet Nathan.

15. What does the author say belongs in every marriage but is missing from a marriage of convenience?
(a) The temporal.
(b) The cruel.
(c) The erotic.
(d) The eternal.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the quality of marital love's movements?

2. What does the author say that every order of life, including marriage, has?

3. What is the reader to understand about the content of Kierkegaard's letter?

4. What is the relationship between marriage and first love according to the author?

5. What does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?

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