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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Select the outcome(s) with which the section Ideas of Solution/Outcomes is concerned.
(a) The possible outcome of a novel by Goethe.
(b) The possible outcome of a wager.
(c) The possible outcomes of the amorous crisis.
(d) The possible outcomes of the other's illness.

2. To which ribbon does the title of the section The Ribbon/Objects refer?
(a) The narrator's mother's ribbon.
(b) A ribbon that held together a packet of love letters.
(c) Charlotte's ribbon, which Werther forms an attachment to.
(d) The ribbon of a dead lover.

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) What the subject hopes to see the object of love wear.
(c) That worn by the subject during the amorous encounter or with the intention to seduce.
(d) The clothes worn by the object of love at their first meeting.

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

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

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

7. In "Show me whom to desire"/Induction, the narrator notes that there is no desire without _________________.
(a) Sadness.
(b) Prohibition.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Intrigue.

8. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?
(a) One of Sigmund Freud's female patients.
(b) A play about a 19th-century society woman.
(c) A goddess from classical Greek mythology.
(d) A book in which the delirious hero mistakes an image for the actual woman he loves.

9. 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.

10. 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 continuous state of amorous desire without the will to possess.
(d) A feeling of gentle laziness.

11. How does the informer wound the subject?
(a) He provides commonplace information about the loved being.
(b) He tells lies about the loved being.
(c) He sabotages the subjects relationship with the other.
(d) He competes for the loved beings affections.

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 degraded and common.
(b) Language is becomes indecipherable.
(c) Language has too many meanings and cannot be controlled.
(d) Language is paradoxically both too much and not enough.

13. In "Exuberance," which two literary characters does the author compare to discuss the "economy of pure expenditure" in love?
(a) Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.
(b) Werther and Albert from the novel Werther.
(c) Werther and Charlotte from the novel Werther.
(d) The narrator and Charlus from the novel The Guermantes' Way.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the clouds symbolize in the section by the same name?

2. In "Novel/Drama," which of the following is true about the writing of the amorous subject's love story?

3. In Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/habiliment, what specifically does the "blue coat and yellow vest" refer to?

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

5. What is the dual nature of the figure of Gradiva?

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