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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through May.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Johannes speculates on how interesting it would be if one could discern __________________ ahead of time.
(a) Who one will love.
(b) If one will ever marry.
(c) What was to occur in a relationship.
(d) If one's marriage will last.

2. How does Johannes try and use this person's arrival to his advantage?
(a) By hiring him as his servant.
(b) By becoming his friend.
(c) By talking to her in front of Cordelia.
(d) By looking him up in the police census records.

3. Was life stimulating enough for Kierkegaard?
(a) Most of the time.
(b) Some of the time.
(c) No.
(d) Yes.

4. What can Johannes remember that made no impression on him?
(a) The art work at the exhibition.
(b) A girl's face.
(c) Cordelia's face.
(d) Cordelia's family.

5. On the twelfth, Johannes discovers the glory of having a young girl come upon you when?
(a) In the rain.
(b) In the park.
(c) In the store.
(d) In the library.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Johannes continue to worry about Cordelia?

2. The sixteenth comes and Johannes notes that it is _______________________ to be in love and interesting to know that one is on love.

3. It should be noted at this point that Kierkegaard is the author writing from the perspective of a man who has come upon the letters of a man named Johannes, who Kierkegaard intends to represent who?

4. What does Cordelia call him?

5. Who does Johannes blame in May for his bad luck?

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