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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?
(a) As needing his protection.
(b) As an imperfect lover.
(c) As unobtainable.
(d) As the perfect lover.

3. In "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?
(a) The amorous subject's happiness is increased by random events.
(b) The amorous subject is oblivious to random events.
(c) The amorous subject is ambivalent about random events.
(d) The amorous subject's happiness is destroyed by random events.

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

5. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?
(a) "You" becomes "it."
(b) "He" or "she" becomes "you."
(c) "One" becomes "I."
(d) "You" becomes "he" or "she" or "one."

6. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?
(a) Understanding from the other.
(b) A response, an interplay of meaning with the other.
(c) Sympathy from the other.
(d) Compassion from the other.

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

8. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Figments of the imagination.
(b) Literary musings.
(c) Fragments of discourse.
(d) Lists of terms.

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

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

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

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

13. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?
(a) He feels himself to be atopos.
(b) He feels depressed.
(c) He feels himself to be classified, like everyone else.
(d) He feels creative.

14. What language does the word "atopos" come from?
(a) Gaelic.
(b) Latin.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Greek.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the duration of a discourse on love?

2. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?

3. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?

4. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

5. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?

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