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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"
(a) The subject feels strong compassion towards the loved object when that person is suffering.
(b) The subject is tired of listening to the other's problems.
(c) The subject experiences pain caused by an insensitive comment made by the other.
(d) The subject deeply misses the loved object when that person is absent.

2. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"
(a) The role of absence in film narratives.
(b) A process whereby the lover's absence is transformed into an abandonment.
(c) The inner motivations for leaving a relationship.
(d) The lover's lack of concern for the absent love object.

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

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

5. 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.

6. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?
(a) Ruysbroek.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Novalis.
(d) Sade.

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

8. At the beginning of the book, in the section entitled, "How this book is structured," what is the name that the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) References.
(b) Figures.
(c) Chapters.
(d) Abstracts.

9. 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.

10. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?
(a) The lover's desire to fit into a particular life structure.
(b) The need to stereotype others.
(c) The desire to escape social constraints and labels.
(d) The traveler's desire to keep moving.

11. "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.

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

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

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

15. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"
(a) The failure of love to live up to expectations.
(b) The failure of the loved object to respond to words like "adorable."
(c) The failure of the lover's desire when confronted which the actual adored object.
(d) The failure of language employed by the lover to adequately describe the loved object.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?

3. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?

4. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?

5. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

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