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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 does the author say is the most intensive enjoyment?
(a) Dreaming as if you would live forever.
(b) Clutching the enjoyment in the consciousness that it may vanish in the next moment.
(c) Sexual intercourse.
(d) Drug taking.

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

3. What does the author say that the first love always is?
(a) The highest earthly good.
(b) A profound evil.
(c) An unavoidable necessity.
(d) A terrific bore.

4. How does the author say the young man lives?
(a) The author says the young man lives by creeping up unnoticed on people.
(b) The author says the young man lives by stealing happy moments.
(c) The author says the young man lives by plundering.
(d) All of these.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first subject Kierkegaard discusses?

2. What is David unable to appreciate about the parable?

3. Where does the author say the young man might be intoxicated by aesthetic pleasure?

4. What one word does the author say can describe love?

5. What does an individual become when his heart is open according to the author?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. How does the author describe romantic love?

6. How does the author relate religion to swimming?

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

8. What is the author's stated intention?

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

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

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