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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The man points out that the work is a diary fully of what?
(a) Exaggerations.
(b) Uncertainties.
(c) Truths.
(d) Falsehood.

2. What is Johannes desperate to know about Cordelia?
(a) Her education.
(b) Her history.
(c) Her feelings.
(d) Her wealth.

3. In the first letter, Cordelia notes that Johannes has never really been what?
(a) Hers.
(b) Honest.
(c) In love.
(d) Himself.

4. On the fifteenth, who does Johannes thank because he was able to find Cordelia?
(a) Cordelia's aunt.
(b) Edward.
(c) Chance.
(d) God.

5. Why does Johannes decide to befriend Edward?
(a) To keep him away from Cordelia.
(b) To convince him to leave Cordelia alone.
(c) To learn the relationship between this man and Cordelia.
(d) To get closer to Cordelia.

6. 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?
(a) His father.
(b) His friend.
(c) Cordelia.
(d) Himself.

7. He is her _____________ for eternity.
(a) Love.
(b) Curse.
(c) Hope.
(d) Life.

8. When Johannes went after Cordelia, what happened?
(a) He called her name and she ignored him.
(b) He tripped and lost sight of her.
(c) She hurried away from him.
(d) He bumped into another woman and lost sight of her.

9. Johannes sees Cordelia but doesn't talk to her, instead speaking with whom in front of her?
(a) Aunt Jansen.
(b) Edward.
(c) The servants.
(d) Mr. Baxter.

10. What does Cordelia call him?
(a) Her fiance.
(b) Her husband.
(c) Her seducer.
(d) Her lover.

11. With whom is Johannes getting in good?
(a) Cordelia.
(b) Edward.
(c) Cordelia's aunt.
(d) Edward's father.

12. When is Johannes willing to modify himself?
(a) For love to draw women in.
(b) Never.
(c) Only for Cordelia.
(d) To attract anyone's attention.

13. Johannes is intent on inquiring more into who Cordelia is but worries about what?
(a) He will discover she is not wealthy.
(b) He will discover he does not love her.
(c) He will discover she is engaged.
(d) He will discover she is married.

14. In fact, the point of The Seducer's Diary is for Kierkegaard to paint a portrait of himself to _______________ his real life love, Cordelia.
(a) Reveal himself to.
(b) Convince.
(c) Open up to.
(d) Deceive.

15. The events he describes are largely _______________.
(a) Inaccurate.
(b) Exaggerated.
(c) False.
(d) True.

Short Answer Questions

1. Johannes points out that he has learned what for new women?

2. What did Johannes conceal from Cordelia?

3. What has still not happened by the twenty-first?

4. How does Johannes try and use this person's arrival to his advantage?

5. On the ninth, Johannes wonders if he has become _________________.

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