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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 rival.
(b) A friendly figure who wounds the subject.
(c) An enemy who tries to destroy the subject.
(d) A malicious gossip.

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

3. What do the clouds symbolize in the section by the same name?
(a) The lover's darkening mood.
(b) The other's silence.
(c) The lover's loss of hope.
(d) A sense of danger.

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

5. What kind of acts does the lover perform in The Last Leaf/Magic.
(a) Meditations, contemplations, and silences.
(b) Magic consultations, secret rites, and votive actions.
(c) Acts of infidelity.
(d) Acts of selfless love.

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

7. 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 the the amorous subject could write his own love story.
(c) Only a professional could write the novel of the amorous subject's love affair.
(d) Only the Other could write the amorous subject's love story. He cannot do it himself.

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

9. "In the loving calm of your arms" describes the embrace of total union between lovers. What contradiction does the lover experience?
(a) The lover is both child and adult.
(b) The lover feels both male and female.
(c) The lover is both mother and father.
(d) The lover is neither completely awake or asleep.

10. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover's discourse do to the other?
(a) It stifles him, imposing silence.
(b) It causes him to reply in kind.
(c) It irritates him.
(d) It drives him to suicide.

11. What is another name used in The Ribbon/Objects to describe the lover's attachment to an object that belonged to the beloved?
(a) Fanaticism.
(b) Nostalgia.
(c) Fetishism.
(d) Mania.

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

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

14. In Clouds, why is Herr Schmidt upset?
(a) Werther deliberately tries to aggravate him.
(b) Werther is nice to his fiancée Frederika.
(c) He has had a bad day and decides to take it out on those present.
(d) The church is locked and they cannot get in.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Special Days"/Festivity, what analogy is used to describe the lover's meeting with the loved being?

2. 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?

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

4. What image does the author evoke to represent the "exuberance" that results from constantly expending love?

5. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?

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