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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 slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Fragments of discourse.
(b) Literary musings.
(c) Figments of the imagination.
(d) Lists of terms.

2. 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 forbidden pleasure.
(d) A lively pleasure.

3. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?
(a) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pain.
(b) The lover's attempt to circumscribe boredom.
(c) The lover's refusal to circumscribe pleasure.
(d) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pleasure.

4. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?
(a) The lover does not bother to ask the other how he feels.
(b) The other reveals a lot about himself by being secretive.
(c) The other must know that the lover does not want to show his feelings.
(d) The lover reveals his lack of respect for the other.

5. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) Self-doubt.
(b) A person whom one addresses.
(c) A desire to please.
(d) Courage.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?

3. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?

4. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"

5. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Laetitia/To Circumscribe, what are two pleasures the narrator dreams of, and which one does he aspire to.

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

7. Describe the two affirmations of love discussed at the end of the section entitled Intractable/Affirmation.

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

9. In "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment, what does the author mean when he says that fulfillments are not spoken?

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

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