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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 gentle laziness.
(b) A feeling of drowsiness after an evening with the beloved.
(c) A feeling of pleasurable melancholy.
(d) A continuous state of amorous desire without the will to possess.

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

3. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?
(a) With anyone who cannot find their ideal mate.
(b) With every character or person who occupies the same place in love as he does.
(c) With the oppressed.
(d) With images of death.

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

5. What is the narrator's definition of the image in the section Images?
(a) A romantic painting.
(b) That from which I am excluded.
(c) The lover's fantasy of the beloved.
(d) A visual feast.

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

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

8. Which of the following best describes the lover's state in "We are our own demons?"
(a) Triumphant over his inner demons
(b) Possessed by inner demons.
(c) Tired of life and its demons.
(d) Indulging in many temptations.

9. To what does the "ghost ship," in the section entitled The Ghost Ship/Errantry refer?
(a) The lover dreams of sailing the world with the object of desire.
(b) The errant lover wanders from love to love, believing in the quest for fulfillment.
(c) The lover is haunted by terrible memories.
(d) The lover becomes a ghost of his former self.

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

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

12. In "Dedication," the author presents an internal dialogue that accompanies which of the following acts?
(a) The dedication of one's life to a cause.
(b) The act of giving a gift, or some other form of dedication, to the object of love.
(c) Receiving a gift from the other.
(d) Making a formal commitment to the other.

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

14. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?
(a) To the opinions of society and to the opinions of the other.
(b) To the loved one and to the loved one's dependency.
(c) To the loved one and to that person's parents.
(d) To the other's dependency and to that of the other's children.

15. What is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"
(a) "Really?"
(b) "So do I."
(c) "I love you, too. "
(d) Silence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?

2. Select the outcome(s) with which the section Ideas of Solution/Outcomes is concerned.

3. Which of the following describes the lover's madness in "I am crazy"/mad?

4. What causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?

5. What does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'

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