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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 are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?
(a) There is a sense of claustrophobia on the part of the lover.
(b) The lover suffers from seeing the other diminished and excluded from the sentiment he or she provoked.
(c) The lover has to fight for autonomy and a sense of self.
(d) The lover becomes tired of constantly seeking new partners.

2. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Plato.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Meno.

3. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?
(a) To a sewing procedure, which is a metaphor in the text.
(b) To the rejection of perfection by the lover.
(c) To the production of a counter-image of the loved object.
(d) To the missing tip of a nose, and nothing else.

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

5. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"
(a) The effects of a childhood loss that continues to affect his relationships.
(b) The pain of rejection that haunts him.
(c) The tendency to hallucinate the other and recreate the sense of waiting even after the relationship is over.
(d) The story of a mandarin and a courtesan.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?

2. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?

3. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

4. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?

5. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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