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

2. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?
(a) A lively pleasure.
(b) A forbidden pleasure.
(c) A subtle pleasure.
(d) A lifelong pleasure.

3. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?
(a) To be overcome with emotion or to swoon.
(b) To lose oneself in a good story.
(c) To be embraced by one's lover.
(d) To fall into a deep sleep.

4. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.
(b) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(c) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.
(d) The lover does not want to be a gossip.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?

3. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?

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

5. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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?

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

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

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

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