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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 does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?
(a) To the production of a counter-image of the loved object.
(b) To a sewing procedure, which is a metaphor in the text.
(c) To the missing tip of a nose, and nothing else.
(d) To the rejection of perfection by the lover.

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

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

4. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?
(a) Gentle despair (active resignation) and violent despair (total destruction).
(b) Active despair and passive despair.
(c) Physical despair and mental despair.
(d) Angry despair (rage) and hopeless despair (depression).

5. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?
(a) The Man.
(b) The mother.
(c) The Woman.
(d) The father.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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