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

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

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

4. 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 is haunted by terrible memories.
(d) The lover dreams of sailing the world with the object of desire.

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

6. 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 laugh and celebrate.
(c) To place the body and its fulfillment before everything else.
(d) To inflict harm on himself; to expel himself from love's paradise.

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

8. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?
(a) The amorous subject's state of mind upon waking.
(b) The lover's nervous breakdown after a break up.
(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.

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

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

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

12. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?
(a) With the oppressed.
(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 images of death.

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

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

15. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover refer to when he says, "I am odious?"
(a) The tendency towards self-indulgence.
(b) His controlling behavior and lack of generosity towards the other.
(c) His feeling s of remorse.
(d) His cowardice.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the lover attached to the object?

2. What does the young Freud say to his fiancée in The Love Letter?

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

4. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what gets characterized as obscene in contemporary society?

5. What is the narrator's definition of the image in the section Images?

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