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

2. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?
(a) "You" becomes "it."
(b) "He" or "she" becomes "you."
(c) "You" becomes "he" or "she" or "one."
(d) "One" becomes "I."

3. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"
(a) The subject feels strong compassion towards the loved object when that person is suffering.
(b) The subject is tired of listening to the other's problems.
(c) The subject deeply misses the loved object when that person is absent.
(d) The subject experiences pain caused by an insensitive comment made by the other.

4. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
(a) As hallucinations.
(b) As a kind of fate.
(c) As random unrelated events.
(d) As signs of love.

5. When does this desire affect the subject?
(a) When the subject is irritated.
(b) When the subject is in a state of despair or fulfillment.
(c) When the subject is bored.
(d) When the subject is in a state of raw panic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

2. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?

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

4. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?

5. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Atopos, how does the lover see himself in relation to the other?

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

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