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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what main subject does the author address?
(a) The lover derides the other's secretiveness.
(b) The lover disguises his distrust of the other.
(c) The lover wonders whether he should declare his love.
(d) The lover wonders to what degree he should conceal the turbulence of his passions.

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

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

4. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?
(a) The slightly decayed nose of a disinterred corpse.
(b) A figure in a Flemish painting.
(c) A photograph of the author's mother.
(d) The nose of a German poet.

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

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

7. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?
(a) As the ultimate goal for every single person.
(b) As impossible, and therefore more desirable.
(c) As an either/or situation: a matter of success or failure, victory or defeat.
(d) As a compromise that must be endured for the sake of society.

8. 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) An increasing apathy regarding the other's absence.
(c) Making lists of the other's faults while waiting for him.
(d) A growing fear of the death of the beloved during his absence.

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

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

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

12. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Meno.
(d) Plato.

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

14. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?
(a) The narrator writes a business letter instead of a love letter.
(b) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.
(c) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.
(d) The narrator describes burning his love letters.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?

3. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"

4. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

5. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?

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