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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. To whom does the following quote belong,"I therefore have decked myself out in finery so that I might be in the company of a fine young man?"
(a) Proust.
(b) Gradiva.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Socrates.

2. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?
(a) To the opinions of society and to the opinions of the other.
(b) To the loved one and to that person's parents.
(c) To the loved one and to the loved one's dependency.
(d) To the other's dependency and to that of the other's children.

3. In The Love Letter, what single piece of information is presented with variation?
(a) I wish you were here.
(b) Do not forget me.
(c) I desire you.
(d) I am thinking of you.

4. At Fault/faults, describes the lover's feeling of guilt that results from which of the following feelings?
(a) The subject is unfaithful to the loved being.
(b) The subject accuses the other of something he did not do.
(c) The subject forgets an important date with the other.
(d) The subject imagines he has failed the loved being by thinking for himself..

5. Why is the lover attached to the object?
(a) It is seen as an extension of the loved one's body.
(b) It is nostalgic.
(c) It smells like the other's perfume.
(d) Because he is irrational.

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic does the figure I Love You discuss?

2. Match the term "loquela" with the correct phrase.

3. What does the author note about crying in the modern era?

4. In "Special Days"/Festivity, what analogy is used to describe the lover's meeting with the loved being?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly state what Werther writes in his letter to Charlotte and what it signifies in The Love Letter/Letter.

2. Exuberance/Expenditure: Discuss the contrast the author makes between the characters Werther and Albert.

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the type of jealousy displayed by Werther in the figure Jealousy.

8. "Looking embarrassed"/Embarrassment: Describe the scene of embarrassment from Werther cited in this section.

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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