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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 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 pain of rejection that haunts him.
(b) The tendency to hallucinate the other and recreate the sense of waiting even after the relationship is over.
(c) The story of a mandarin and a courtesan.
(d) The effects of a childhood loss that continues to affect his relationships.

2. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"
(a) The inner motivations for leaving a relationship.
(b) The lover's lack of concern for the absent love object.
(c) A process whereby the lover's absence is transformed into an abandonment.
(d) The role of absence in film narratives.

3. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
(a) The potential for rejection.
(b) The other's loss of memory.
(c) The inability to recover the self when the lover is absent.
(d) The lover's fear of intimacy.

4. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Anger.

5. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?
(a) To a scientist looking through a microscope.
(b) To someone reading a newspaper.
(c) To children who disassemble a clock to see what time is.
(d) To a prisoner looking out the window.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?

4. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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