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Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?
(a) The desire to escape social constraints and labels.
(b) The traveler's desire to keep moving.
(c) The lover's desire to fit into a particular life structure.
(d) The need to stereotype others.

3. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?
(a) Choosing between two alternatives: this, or that.
(b) Deciding when to leave the other.
(c) Solving a difficult social crisis.
(d) Finding a solution to a dispute.

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

5. When does this desire affect the subject?
(a) When the subject is bored.
(b) When the subject is in a state of raw panic.
(c) When the subject is in a state of despair or fulfillment.
(d) When the subject is irritated.

6. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?
(a) To children who disassemble a clock to see what time is.
(b) To someone reading a newspaper.
(c) To a prisoner looking out the window.
(d) To a scientist looking through a microscope.

7. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(b) The lover does not want to be a gossip.
(c) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.
(d) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.

8. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?
(a) Self-actualization that bypasses the need for the other.
(b) Feelings of sadness over the impossibility of fulfillment.
(c) The will to complete fulfillment in love that exceeds language.
(d) Fulfilling one's childhood dreams.

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

10. 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 business letter instead of a love letter.
(c) The narrator describes burning his love letters.
(d) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.

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

12. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Meno.

13. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
(a) Through refusing to speak to friends about his condition.
(b) Through fasting, sexual abstinence, and total seclusion.
(c) Through appearance (short hair, dark glasses) and monk-like habits (serious study, rising early).
(d) Through long walks alone in the desert.

14. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?
(a) The father.
(b) The Woman.
(c) The mother.
(d) The Man.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?

2. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?

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

4. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

5. In "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?

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