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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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 father's absence.
(b) To the mother's absence.
(c) To the subject's first disappointment in love.
(d) To the child's need for approval.

5. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?
(a) As unobtainable.
(b) As an imperfect lover.
(c) As needing his protection.
(d) As the perfect lover.

6. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?
(a) The nature of trust.
(b) Himself and what it means to be "in love."
(c) What it means to feel secure.
(d) The meaning of life.

7. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?
(a) The meaning of beauty.
(b) The cause of his desire.
(c) Unexpressed thoughts.
(d) Evidence of imperfection.

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

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

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

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) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(c) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(d) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

3. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?

4. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?

5. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?

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