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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What observation is made about the amorous subject in the section In Praise of Tears/Crying?
(a) He is emotionally immature.
(b) He has a propensity for tears.
(c) He represses his tears.
(d) He dislikes it when the other cries.

4. What does the author note about crying in the modern era?
(a) It is no longer acceptable for men to cry, especially in public.
(b) Everyone cries too easily.
(c) It is seen as unhealthy to cry.
(d) Crying does not tell more than words.

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

6. What does the lover acknowledge in This can't go on/Unbearable?
(a) The Unknowable.
(b) The Unbearable.
(c) The sacrifices the other has made.
(d) The end of desire.

7. In The Orange/Irksome, an episode involving oranges from the novel Werther is used to describe which of the following feelings?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) A sentiment of slight jealousy.
(c) Unconditional love.
(d) A feeling of nausea.

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

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

10. Which of the following characterizes the figure "night" in the section "And the night illuminated the night"/Night?
(a) Metaphors of darkness that describe interior states of the lover.
(b) The lover's favorite time of day.
(c) A sense of helplessness.
(d) Total ignorance of the other.

11. What do a person's tears prove to him?
(a) That he is weak.
(b) That he must cultivate poetry.
(c) That his love is real.
(d) That he has lost touch with reality.

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

13. 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 other's dependency and to that of the other's children.
(c) To the loved one and to that person's parents.
(d) To the loved one and to the loved one's dependency.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does the following quote belong,"I therefore have decked myself out in finery so that I might be in the company of a fine young man?"

2. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?

3. Which of the following best describes the lover's state in "We are our own demons?"

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

5. In Exiled from the Image-repertoire/Exile, the idea of exile can be associated with which of the following things?

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