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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the definition of languor offered in the section Love's Languor?
(a) A feeling of pleasurable melancholy.
(b) A feeling of drowsiness after an evening with the beloved.
(c) A feeling of gentle laziness.
(d) A continuous state of amorous desire without the will to possess.

2. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what gets characterized as obscene in contemporary society?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Greed.
(c) Sentimentality.
(d) Rationality.

3. Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/Habiliment refers, in general, to which kind of clothing?
(a) That which the lover borrows from the loved being.
(b) The clothes worn by the object of love at their first meeting.
(c) What the subject hopes to see the object of love wear.
(d) That worn by the subject during the amorous encounter or with the intention to seduce.

4. What image does the author evoke to represent the "exuberance" that results from constantly expending love?
(a) A wild ocean.
(b) An overflowing fountain.
(c) A deep well.
(d) A vast desert.

5. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"
(a) Prone to negativity.
(b) Detached.
(c) Aggressive.
(d) Vulnerable and sensitive to ridicule.

6. In The Love Letter, what single piece of information is presented with variation?
(a) Do not forget me.
(b) I desire you.
(c) I am thinking of you.
(d) I wish you were here.

7. Which relationship dynamic does the section of the text entitled "Domnei" or "dependency" describe?
(a) The amorous subject is subjugated to the loved object.
(b) The loved object is much too dependent on the amorous subject.
(c) The couple decides to discuss problems of dependency.
(d) Common belief always places the woman in the submissive role.

8. How is the sentimental subject perceived by society?
(a) As irritating.
(b) As worthy of sympathy.
(c) As stupid, unseemly, and laughable.
(d) As worthy of admiration.

9. What clothing is Werther wearing when he first dances with Charlotte?
(a) A white shirt and riding boots.
(b) A formal black suit.
(c) Old work clothes.
(d) A blue coat and yellow vest.

10. Why is the lover attached to the object?
(a) It smells like the other's perfume.
(b) It is seen as an extension of the loved one's body.
(c) It is nostalgic.
(d) Because he is irrational.

11. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?
(a) Madness is an illness.
(b) "I" is an other.
(c) The other is mad as well.
(d) I am not someone else.

12. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover refer to when he says, "I am odious?"
(a) His cowardice.
(b) The tendency towards self-indulgence.
(c) His controlling behavior and lack of generosity towards the other.
(d) His feeling s of remorse.

13. Which author does the quotation "And the night illuminated the night" come from?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Plato.
(c) John of the Cross.
(d) Freud.

14. In "Novel/Drama," which of the following is true about the writing of the amorous subject's love story?
(a) Only the Other could write the amorous subject's love story. He cannot do it himself.
(b) Only a professional could write the novel of the amorous subject's love affair.
(c) Only a third party who has observed the relationship could write the love story.
(d) Only the the amorous subject could write his own love story.

15. What causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?
(a) The object of desire receives his gift and refuses to share it.
(b) The object of desire rejects his offering of oranges.
(c) The object of desire shares the oranges he gave her with a neighbor.
(d) The object of desire is oblivious to his gift.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"

2. What does the author note about crying in the modern era?

3. In The Orange/Irksome, an episode involving oranges from the novel Werther is used to describe which of the following feelings?

4. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?

5. In "Dedication," what effect can writing, as a form of amorous dedication, have on the other?

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