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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 lover's desire when confronted which the actual adored object.
(c) The failure of language employed by the lover to adequately describe the loved object.
(d) The failure of the loved object to respond to words like "adorable."

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?
(a) To someone reading a newspaper.
(b) To a prisoner looking out the window.
(c) To a scientist looking through a microscope.
(d) To children who disassemble a clock to see what time is.

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

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

9. 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 other reveals a lot about himself by being secretive.
(c) The other must know that the lover does not want to show his feelings.
(d) The lover does not bother to ask the other how he feels.

10. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.
(b) The loss of financial security.
(c) The loss of belief in true love.
(d) The loss of someone to talk to.

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

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

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

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

15. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?
(a) When will I find love?
(b) What will the world and the other do with my heart, my desire?
(c) When will my wit be valued as much as my heart?
(d) When will my heartache go away?

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

4. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?

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

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