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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?
(a) To be overcome with emotion or to swoon.
(b) To lose oneself in a good story.
(c) To be embraced by one's lover.
(d) To fall into a deep sleep.

2. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"
(a) The story of a mandarin and a courtesan.
(b) The pain of rejection that haunts him.
(c) The tendency to hallucinate the other and recreate the sense of waiting even after the relationship is over.
(d) The effects of a childhood loss that continues to affect his relationships.

3. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?
(a) As suffering, which the lover hopes to inflict on the other.
(b) As causality, which the lover wishes to escape from.
(c) As nothingness, which the lover hopes to attain.
(d) As nirvana, which the lover hopes to attain.

4. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?
(a) As worthy.
(b) As unlovable.
(c) As tough and courageous.
(d) As both pathetic and admirable; child and adult.

5. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(b) The lover does not want to be a gossip.
(c) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.
(d) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.

6. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?
(a) Indolent.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Untranslatable.
(d) Unclassifiable.

7. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) Courage.
(b) Self-doubt.
(c) A desire to please.
(d) A person whom one addresses.

8. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?
(a) To society.
(b) To those friends who doubt the depth of his feelings.
(c) To the other (the one who is loved).
(d) To the mother.

9. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?
(a) Shame in front of others.
(b) Impatience and irritability.
(c) Jealousy and fear of injury and abandonment.
(d) Sadness and despondency.

10. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To Gide riding a train.
(b) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.
(c) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.
(d) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.

11. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?
(a) Language becomes irrelevant.
(b) The lover seeks to escape the constraints of language.
(c) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.
(d) The lover's language becomes expansive and creative.

12. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?
(a) Orpheus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Apollo.

13. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?
(a) There is a sense of claustrophobia on the part of the lover.
(b) The lover has to fight for autonomy and a sense of self.
(c) The lover suffers from seeing the other diminished and excluded from the sentiment he or she provoked.
(d) The lover becomes tired of constantly seeking new partners.

14. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(b) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(c) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(d) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.

15. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Anger.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Embarrassment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?

2. When does this desire affect the subject?

3. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

4. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what main subject does the author address?

5. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?

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