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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 "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?
(a) The amorous subject's happiness is destroyed by random events.
(b) The amorous subject's happiness is increased by random events.
(c) The amorous subject is oblivious to random events.
(d) The amorous subject is ambivalent about random events.

2. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?
(a) Flesh and spirit.
(b) The emotional and the physical.
(c) The body proper such as the skin, eyes, and the voice.
(d) The imagined body and the actual body.

3. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?
(a) Impatience and irritability.
(b) Jealousy and fear of injury and abandonment.
(c) Shame in front of others.
(d) Sadness and despondency.

4. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(b) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(c) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(d) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"

2. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

3. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?

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

5. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Atopos, how does the lover associate the other with innocence?

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

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

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

9. 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?

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

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