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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"
(a) The subject is tired of listening to the other's problems.
(b) The subject experiences pain caused by an insensitive comment made by the other.
(c) The subject feels strong compassion towards the loved object when that person is suffering.
(d) The subject deeply misses the loved object when that person is absent.
2. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?
(a) He feels depressed.
(b) He feels himself to be classified, like everyone else.
(c) He feels himself to be atopos.
(d) He feels creative.
3. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?
(a) As unlovable.
(b) As tough and courageous.
(c) As worthy.
(d) As both pathetic and admirable; child and adult.
4. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?
(a) As a threat to the lover's happiness.
(b) As not having any place in a private world in which the lover is king.
(c) As having a particular place in a system from which the lover is excluded.
(d) As irrelevant compared to the object of love.
5. What language does the word "atopos" come from?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) Latin.
(c) Greek.
(d) Gaelic.
6. 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 writes a business letter instead of a love letter.
(c) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.
(d) The narrator describes burning his love letters.
7. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?
(a) Feelings of sadness over the impossibility of fulfillment.
(b) Self-actualization that bypasses the need for the other.
(c) The will to complete fulfillment in love that exceeds language.
(d) Fulfilling one's childhood dreams.
8. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?
(a) Unclassifiable.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Untranslatable.
(d) Indolent.
9. In the section called "Talking," how does the lover's discourse change when the amorous subject speaks about love?
(a) From a personal declaration of love to an abstract philosophical discourse about love.
(b) From a declaration of love to a renouncement of love.
(c) From a rejection of love to a a declaration of love.
(d) From an abstract philosophical discourse about love to a personal declaration of love.
10. 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 traumatic scene from the narrator's childhood that he rehearses mentally.
(c) A book written by Schönberg that deals with waiting.
(d) A French opera.
11. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?
(a) A growing anxiety and loss of all sense of proportion while waiting for the other.
(b) Making lists of the other's faults while waiting for him.
(c) An increasing apathy regarding the other's absence.
(d) A growing fear of the death of the beloved during his absence.
12. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover has to fight for autonomy and a sense of self.
(b) There is a sense of claustrophobia on the part of the lover.
(c) The lover suffers from seeing the other diminished and excluded from the sentiment he or she provoked.
(d) The lover becomes tired of constantly seeking new partners.
13. What is the duration of a discourse on love?
(a) It is interminable.
(b) One year.
(c) A decade or more.
(d) Five months.
14. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?
(a) The other is unique.
(b) The other is a stereotype.
(c) The other is unobtainable.
(d) The other is unfaithful.
15. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
(a) The inability to recover the self when the lover is absent.
(b) The other's loss of memory.
(c) The potential for rejection.
(d) The lover's fear of intimacy.
Short Answer Questions
1. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
2. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?
3. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
4. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?
5. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
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