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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?
(a) The imagined body and the actual body.
(b) The body proper such as the skin, eyes, and the voice.
(c) The emotional and the physical.
(d) Flesh and spirit.

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

3. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
(a) How love makes the lover more rational.
(b) Love as an expression of self-sacrifice.
(c) The lover's eventual rejection of love as a value.
(d) How the lover affirms love as a value against and despite its devaluation.

4. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?
(a) The will to complete fulfillment in love that exceeds language.
(b) Self-actualization that bypasses the need for the other.
(c) Fulfilling one's childhood dreams.
(d) Feelings of sadness over the impossibility of fulfillment.

5. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Indolence.

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

7. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
(a) Foreign travel.
(b) Self-punishment and gentle retreat.
(c) Complete rejection of society.
(d) Meditation.

8. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?
(a) The other is unique.
(b) The other is unobtainable.
(c) The other is a stereotype.
(d) The other is unfaithful.

9. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
(a) Through long walks alone in the desert.
(b) Through refusing to speak to friends about his condition.
(c) Through appearance (short hair, dark glasses) and monk-like habits (serious study, rising early).
(d) Through fasting, sexual abstinence, and total seclusion.

10. 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 effects of a childhood loss that continues to affect his relationships.
(b) The tendency to hallucinate the other and recreate the sense of waiting even after the relationship is over.
(c) The pain of rejection that haunts him.
(d) The story of a mandarin and a courtesan.

11. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
(a) To the child's need for approval.
(b) To the mother's absence.
(c) To the subject's first disappointment in love.
(d) To the father's absence.

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

13. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?
(a) As irrelevant compared to the object of love.
(b) As having a particular place in a system from which the lover is excluded.
(c) As a threat to the lover's happiness.
(d) As not having any place in a private world in which the lover is king.

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

3. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?

4. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?

5. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?

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