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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
(a) The lover's eventual rejection of love as a value.
(b) Love as an expression of self-sacrifice.
(c) How love makes the lover more rational.
(d) How the lover affirms love as a value against and despite its devaluation.

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

3. 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 fall into a deep sleep.
(d) To lose oneself in a good story.

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

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

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

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

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

9. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
(a) Complete rejection of society.
(b) Foreign travel.
(c) Self-punishment and gentle retreat.
(d) Meditation.

10. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?
(a) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pleasure.
(b) The lover's refusal to circumscribe pleasure.
(c) The lover's attempt to circumscribe boredom.
(d) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pain.

11. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"
(a) As a gift-object and an organ of desire.
(b) As a symbol of fertility.
(c) As a pretext for intimacy.
(d) As a tired metaphor for romance.

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

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 desire to please.
(c) Courage.
(d) A person whom one addresses.

14. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
(a) As random unrelated events.
(b) As signs of love.
(c) As a kind of fate.
(d) As hallucinations.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?

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

3. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?

4. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?

5. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?

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