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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What is the "ordeal" described in the section called Fade-out.
(a) The loved being's physical beauty begins to fade.
(b) For no apparent reason the loved being withdraws from all contact.
(c) The loved being's mother dies.
(d) The lover's favorite jeans fade.

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

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

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

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

7. 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 Charlotte from the novel Werther.
(c) Werther and Albert from the novel Werther.
(d) The narrator and Charlus from the novel The Guermantes' Way.

8. The Unknowable describes which of the following situations?
(a) The lover realizes that the loved being is unknowable.
(b) The past is unknowable.
(c) The meaning of love is unknowable.
(d) The lover will never know how to achieve happiness.

9. In "Special Days"/Festivity, what analogy is used to describe the lover's meeting with the loved being?
(a) The child at a circus.
(b) A family on a picnic.
(c) The child laughing with joy at the sight of the mother.
(d) The prisoner released from captivity.

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

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

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

13. At Fault/faults, describes the lover's feeling of guilt that results from which of the following feelings?
(a) The subject forgets an important date with the other.
(b) The subject accuses the other of something he did not do.
(c) The subject is unfaithful to the loved being.
(d) The subject imagines he has failed the loved being by thinking for himself..

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

15. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what is the author's first example of obscenity?
(a) A poem by Sappho.
(b) Werther's obvious love for Charlotte.
(c) Each occasion in the text that the word "love" is used.
(d) A Japanese haiku about love.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do a person's tears prove to him?

2. Which relationship dynamic does the section of the text entitled "Domnei" or "dependency" describe?

3. In the section called Fade-out, where does the other's fade-out reside?

4. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?

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

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