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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 duration of a discourse on love?
(a) One year.
(b) It is interminable.
(c) A decade or more.
(d) Five months.

2. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Secrecy.
(d) Indolence.

3. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.
(b) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.
(c) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.
(d) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.

4. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.
(b) It does not have any effect on language.
(c) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.
(d) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.

5. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?
(a) As nothingness, which the lover hopes to attain.
(b) As suffering, which the lover hopes to inflict on the other.
(c) As causality, which the lover wishes to escape from.
(d) As nirvana, which the lover hopes to attain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what main subject does the author address?

2. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?

3. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?

4. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?

5. When does this desire affect the subject?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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