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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?
(a) To a scientist looking through a microscope.
(b) To children who disassemble a clock to see what time is.
(c) To a prisoner looking out the window.
(d) To someone reading a newspaper.

2. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"
(a) The subject deeply misses the loved object when that person is absent.
(b) The subject is tired of listening to the other's problems.
(c) The subject experiences pain caused by an insensitive comment made by the other.
(d) The subject feels strong compassion towards the loved object when that person is suffering.

3. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?
(a) A subtle pleasure.
(b) A lifelong pleasure.
(c) A lively pleasure.
(d) A forbidden pleasure.

4. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?
(a) Feelings of sadness over the impossibility of fulfillment.
(b) Self-actualization that bypasses the need for the other.
(c) Fulfilling one's childhood dreams.
(d) The will to complete fulfillment in love that exceeds language.

5. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?
(a) Angry despair (rage) and hopeless despair (depression).
(b) Physical despair and mental despair.
(c) Active despair and passive despair.
(d) Gentle despair (active resignation) and violent despair (total destruction).

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?

2. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?

3. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

4. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?

5. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?

Short Essay Questions

1. In the section called The Tip of the Nose/Alteration, the author uses a scene between Werther and Charlotte from the novel Werther to represent the lover's change in attitude toward the loved one. What happens in this scene and what does it demonstrate?

2. In "When my finger accidentally. . ."/Contacts, what does the author imagine Werther's reaction to be when he accidentally touches Charlotte?

3. In Connivance, what position does the other (the object of desire) occupy in the lover's conversation with his rival?

4. Describe the lover's predicament with regard to understanding love in "I want to understand."

5. In Atopos, how does the lover see himself in relation to the other?

6. Discuss the example of Werther's love for Charlotte that the author uses to explain annulment in To Love Love/Annulment.

7. In Agony/Anxiety, why does the author compare the lover to a psychotic who fears a breakdown?

8. In The Absent One/Absence, how does the lover interpret the other's absence?

9. How does Catastrophe discuss the "amorous catastrophe" experienced by the lover?

10. In Waiting, how is "the scenography of waiting" structured?

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