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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which one of the following authors does Barthes cite in this section on the demonic life of a lover?
(a) Goethe.
(b) Freud.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Proust.

3. What literary lover did thousands of young men identify with and imitate in their dress and actions?
(a) Werther.
(b) Heinrich.
(c) Herr Schmidt.
(d) Albert.

4. Which of the following describes the lover's madness in "I am crazy"/mad?
(a) Poetic.
(b) Supernatural.
(c) Unconscious.
(d) Metaphorical.

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

6. In Jealousy, what does Werther's jealousy derive from, according to the author?
(a) From insecurity.
(b) From images.
(c) From thoughts.
(d) From lack of knowledge.

7. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?
(a) That of the lover and that of the mundane world.
(b) That of the theater and that of the mundane world.
(c) The familiar and the foreign.
(d) The city and nature.

8. What does that composer claim regarding tears?
(a) Never let your lover see you cry.
(b) Poetry is more eloquent than tears.
(c) Tears are for the weak and unmanly.
(d) One tear will say more than words.

9. Match the term "loquela" with the correct phrase.
(a) "I fall in love again and again."
(b) "I keep swallowing and regurgitating my wound."
(c) "I know that you know that I know."
(d) "I doom myself to blackmail."

10. Which of the following phrases describes the informer in the section called The Informer?
(a) A rival.
(b) A friendly figure who wounds the subject.
(c) An enemy who tries to destroy the subject.
(d) A malicious gossip.

11. What kind of acts does the lover perform in The Last Leaf/Magic.
(a) Magic consultations, secret rites, and votive actions.
(b) Meditations, contemplations, and silences.
(c) Acts of infidelity.
(d) Acts of selfless love.

12. In the same section, the author notes that to write about love is to "confront the muck of language"; which of the following describes this problem?
(a) Language is becomes indecipherable.
(b) Language is degraded and common.
(c) Language is paradoxically both too much and not enough.
(d) Language has too many meanings and cannot be controlled.

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

14. What is the dual nature of the figure of Gradiva?
(a) Knowledge and ignorance.
(b) Love and hate.
(c) Union and separation.
(d) Salvation and torment.

15. In "Inexpressible Love," what two powerful myths does the author mention?
(a) That sublimated love engenders beautiful discourse and that one can write about one's passion.
(b) That true love can never be found and that only poets can write about love.
(c) That writing about love heals the heart and that everyone has a soulmate.
(d) That true love is eternal and that it is the most ancient story to tell.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the lover attached to the object?

2. What does the lover acknowledge in This can't go on/Unbearable?

3. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what is the author's first example of obscenity?

4. In "Dedication," the author presents an internal dialogue that accompanies which of the following acts?

5. What is the "ordeal" described in the section called Fade-out.

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