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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. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?
(a) When will I find love?
(b) What will the world and the other do with my heart, my desire?
(c) When will my heartache go away?
(d) When will my wit be valued as much as my heart?

2. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) Indolence.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Innocence.

3. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?
(a) Sade.
(b) Ruysbroek.
(c) Novalis.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what main subject does the author address?
(a) The lover disguises his distrust of the other.
(b) The lover wonders to what degree he should conceal the turbulence of his passions.
(c) The lover derides the other's secretiveness.
(d) The lover wonders whether he should declare his love.

5. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
(a) Through long walks alone in the desert.
(b) Through refusing to speak to friends about his condition.
(c) Through fasting, sexual abstinence, and total seclusion.
(d) Through appearance (short hair, dark glasses) and monk-like habits (serious study, rising early).

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

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

4. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?

5. What is the duration of a discourse on love?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In "Adorable!," the author notes how the lover sees the other as a Whole; what does he mean?

3. How does the mother-child relationship relate to the lover's feelings about the other's absence?

4. In "Tutti Sistemati"/Pigeonholed, how does the lover perceive the system inhabited by others?

5. Discuss the function of the dark glasses in Dark Glasses/To Hide.

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

7. What is the ascetic process that the lover goes through in the section entitled To Be Ascetic/Askesis?

8. 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?

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

10. In The Heart, how does the author compare the heart to other attributes such as wit?

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