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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) I adore you because you are fascinating.
(b) The adorable is what is adorable.
(c) I love you because you are absent.
(d) The adorable is what is impossible.

2. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?
(a) Flesh and spirit.
(b) The imagined body and the actual body.
(c) The emotional and the physical.
(d) The body proper such as the skin, eyes, and the voice.

3. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.
(b) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.
(c) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. 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 pain.
(c) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pleasure.
(d) The lover's attempt to circumscribe boredom.

12. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?
(a) A lifelong pleasure.
(b) A lively pleasure.
(c) A forbidden pleasure.
(d) A subtle pleasure.

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

14. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?
(a) The lover creates meaning from the contact.
(b) The lover feels excessive distress.
(c) The lover becomes shy and nervous.
(d) The lover remains unaffected.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

2. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

3. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?

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

5. In "What is to be done?" which of the following describes the behavior of the amorous subject?

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