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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. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
(a) Self-punishment and gentle retreat.
(b) Complete rejection of society.
(c) Foreign travel.
(d) Meditation.

2. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?
(a) The lover becomes shy and nervous.
(b) The lover feels excessive distress.
(c) The lover remains unaffected.
(d) The lover creates meaning from the contact.

3. What does the "scenography of waiting" refer to?
(a) A drama in which the narrator goes through the different stages of waiting and their associated actions and emotions.
(b) A French opera.
(c) A traumatic scene from the narrator's childhood that he rehearses mentally.
(d) A book written by Schönberg that deals with waiting.

4. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?
(a) He wants to make his mother feel guilty.
(b) He wants to show off his learning to his friends.
(c) He wants to display his askesis as something caused by the other so that person will yield.
(d) He wants to convince society that he is worthy of love.

5. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?
(a) As not having any place in a private world in which the lover is king.
(b) As a threat to the lover's happiness.
(c) As irrelevant compared to the object of love.
(d) As having a particular place in a system from which the lover is excluded.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?

3. In the section called "Talking," how does the lover's discourse change when the amorous subject speaks about love?

4. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe the lover's sense of engulfment in the section "I am engulfed, I succumb..."/To Be Engulfed.

2. In "I have an Other-ache"/Compassion, in relation to the other's suffering, the lover sees himself as a Mother, but an insufficient one-why?

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

4. Describe the effect that the lover hope to achieve by adopting ascetic behavior.

5. What is the lover's attitude towards choice in "What is to be done?"/Behavior?

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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