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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the lover's condition cause him to do in "We are our own demons?"
(a) To cry frequently and need reassurance.
(b) To place the body and its fulfillment before everything else.
(c) To laugh and celebrate.
(d) To inflict harm on himself; to expel himself from love's paradise.

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

3. In Exiled from the Image-repertoire/Exile, the idea of exile can be associated with which of the following things?
(a) Leaving one's country of birth.
(b) Mourning the death on a loved one.
(c) Amorous mourning; abandoning the image of the other.
(d) Leaving behind old images of the self.

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

5. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?
(a) The anxious lover's feeling of withdrawal from the world and his surroundings.
(b) The feelings that arise during a late night at work.
(c) The amorous subject's state of mind upon waking.
(d) The lover's nervous breakdown after a break up.

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

7. How does Werther fall in love with Charlotte in the section "Show me whom to desire/Induction?"
(a) He falls for her without ever seeing or hearing about her before.
(b) He meets her at a friend's wedding and is smitten.
(c) At first he dislikes her then he changes his mind.
(d) Her beauty is pointed out to him before he sees her, then he falls for her.

8. What does the lover give the other when he offers a gift?
(a) An expensive token of affection.
(b) Something he has touched and invested with emotion.
(c) A souvenir of happier times.
(d) Something useless and impractical.

9. "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.

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

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

12. Which of the following scenarios is described in No Answer/Silence?
(a) The lover is anxious because his calls go unanswered.
(b) The lover is anxious because his letters remain unanswered.
(c) The amorous subject does not like to be alone.
(d) The amorous subject is discouraged by the other's distracted silence.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. The Unknowable describes which of the following situations?

4. "In the loving calm of your arms" describes the embrace of total union between lovers. What contradiction does the lover experience?

5. 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?"

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