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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 causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?
(a) The object of desire shares the oranges he gave her with a neighbor.
(b) The object of desire rejects his offering of oranges.
(c) The object of desire is oblivious to his gift.
(d) The object of desire receives his gift and refuses to share it.

2. What is another name used in The Ribbon/Objects to describe the lover's attachment to an object that belonged to the beloved?
(a) Mania.
(b) Fanaticism.
(c) Fetishism.
(d) Nostalgia.

3. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?
(a) The other is mad as well.
(b) Madness is an illness.
(c) "I" is an other.
(d) I am not someone else.

4. To which ribbon does the title of the section The Ribbon/Objects refer?
(a) The ribbon of a dead lover.
(b) The narrator's mother's ribbon.
(c) Charlotte's ribbon, which Werther forms an attachment to.
(d) A ribbon that held together a packet of love letters.

5. In the section called Fade-out, where does the other's fade-out reside?
(a) In the other's voice.
(b) In the other's appearance.
(c) In the lover's silence.
(d) In the lover's memory.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Dedication," what effect can writing, as a form of amorous dedication, have on the other?

2. The Unknowable describes which of the following situations?

3. Which of the following best describes the lover's state in "We are our own demons?"

4. In "Dedication," the author presents an internal dialogue that accompanies which of the following acts?

5. How does the informer wound the subject?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Love's Languor/Languor, how is the Satyr contrasted with languor?

2. Describe the lover's struggle with demons in "We are our own demons"/Demons.

3. What object does the lover compare himself to in This can't go on/Unbearable?

4. In Images, what is the lover's relationship to visual images he sees?

5. Describe the functioning of the loquela in the section entitled The Loquela.

6. Briefly describe the process of induction in the figure "Show me whom to desire"/Induction.

7. In The Ghost Ship/Errantry, why is the lover doomed to wander?

8. Describe the scenario in At Fault/Faults between the lover and the loved one at the train station.

9. Novel/Drama: Why does the form in which a love story is told matter?

10. "I am crazy"/Mad: How is the lover's madness metaphorical?

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