View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?
(a) Solving a difficult social crisis.
(b) Deciding when to leave the other.
(c) Finding a solution to a dispute.
(d) Choosing between two alternatives: this, or that.

2. 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.

3. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?
(a) When will my heartache go away?
(b) What will the world and the other do with my heart, my desire?
(c) When will my wit be valued as much as my heart?
(d) When will I find love?

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

5. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) Self-doubt.
(b) Courage.
(c) A person whom one addresses.
(d) A desire to please.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"

2. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?

3. What is the duration of a discourse on love?

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

5. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

8. Discuss the example of Werther's love for Charlotte that the author uses to explain annulment in To Love Love/Annulment.

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

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 1,055 words (approx. 4 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample