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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover has to fight for autonomy and a sense of self.
(b) The lover becomes tired of constantly seeking new partners.
(c) The lover suffers from seeing the other diminished and excluded from the sentiment he or she provoked.
(d) There is a sense of claustrophobia on the part of the lover.

2. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?
(a) As nirvana, which the lover hopes to attain.
(b) As causality, which the lover wishes to escape from.
(c) As nothingness, which the lover hopes to attain.
(d) As suffering, which the lover hopes to inflict on the other.

3. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Anger.
(b) Embarrassment.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Anxiety.

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

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

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 other.
(b) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.
(c) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.
(d) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.

7. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?
(a) To the other (the one who is loved).
(b) To society.
(c) To the mother.
(d) To those friends who doubt the depth of his feelings.

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

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

10. 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) Awkwardly silent.
(c) Needy.
(d) Self-indulgent with little concern for others' feelings.

11. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?
(a) As not having any place in a private world in which the lover is king.
(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 irrelevant compared to the object of love.

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

13. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) Self-doubt.
(b) A person whom one addresses.
(c) Courage.
(d) A desire to please.

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

15. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
(a) The inability to recover the self when the lover is absent.
(b) The lover's fear of intimacy.
(c) The other's loss of memory.
(d) The potential for rejection.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?

3. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?

4. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?

5. When does this desire affect the subject?

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