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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. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?
(a) The amorous subject and his mother.
(b) The object of love and the lover's rival.
(c) The amorous subject and his rival.
(d) The amorous subject and the object of love.

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

3. What language does the word "atopos" come from?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) Latin.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Greek.

4. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover is never without the attentions of the beloved.
(b) The lover retreats into the idea of love when threatened by injury or jealousy.
(c) The lover can seek out a new love interest.
(d) The lover can take on a new identity.

5. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?
(a) The lover's desire to fit into a particular life structure.
(b) The traveler's desire to keep moving.
(c) The need to stereotype others.
(d) The desire to escape social constraints and labels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?

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

3. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?

4. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?

5. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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