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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?
(a) A lifelong pleasure.
(b) A forbidden pleasure.
(c) A subtle pleasure.
(d) A lively pleasure.

2. In the section called "Talking," how does the lover's discourse change when the amorous subject speaks about love?
(a) From a personal declaration of love to an abstract philosophical discourse about love.
(b) From a rejection of love to a a declaration of love.
(c) From an abstract philosophical discourse about love to a personal declaration of love.
(d) From a declaration of love to a renouncement of love.

3. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?
(a) The amorous subject and the object of love.
(b) The object of love and the lover's rival.
(c) The amorous subject and his rival.
(d) The amorous subject and his mother.

4. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?
(a) The other reveals a lot about himself by being secretive.
(b) The lover does not bother to ask the other how he feels.
(c) The lover reveals his lack of respect for the other.
(d) The other must know that the lover does not want to show his feelings.

5. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.
(b) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.
(c) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.
(d) The lover's desire annuls the other.

6. In "What is to be done?" which of the following describes the behavior of the amorous subject?
(a) Awkwardly silent.
(b) Needy.
(c) Self-indulgent with little concern for others' feelings.
(d) Everything is over-interpreted and spontaneity becomes impossible.

7. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?
(a) A growing anxiety and loss of all sense of proportion while waiting for the other.
(b) Making lists of the other's faults while waiting for him.
(c) An increasing apathy regarding the other's absence.
(d) A growing fear of the death of the beloved during his absence.

8. What is the duration of a discourse on love?
(a) Five months.
(b) It is interminable.
(c) A decade or more.
(d) One year.

9. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?
(a) Active despair and passive despair.
(b) Physical despair and mental despair.
(c) Gentle despair (active resignation) and violent despair (total destruction).
(d) Angry despair (rage) and hopeless despair (depression).

10. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?
(a) Unexpressed thoughts.
(b) Evidence of imperfection.
(c) The meaning of beauty.
(d) The cause of his desire.

11. What does the "scenography of waiting" refer to?
(a) A book written by Schönberg that deals with waiting.
(b) A French opera.
(c) A traumatic scene from the narrator's childhood that he rehearses mentally.
(d) A drama in which the narrator goes through the different stages of waiting and their associated actions and emotions.

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

13. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) The adorable is what is impossible.
(b) I adore you because you are fascinating.
(c) I love you because you are absent.
(d) The adorable is what is adorable.

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

15. According to this section in the text, what is the best reaction to the other's suffering?
(a) Sympathy, delicacy, and reassurance.
(b) Compassion, moral support, and physical contact.
(c) Empathy, advice, and affection.
(d) Detachment, delicacy, and compassion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?

2. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?

3. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?

4. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?

5. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?

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