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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) Socrates.
(b) Proust.
(c) Gradiva.
(d) Goethe.

2. In Exiled from the Image-repertoire/Exile, the idea of exile can be associated with which of the following things?
(a) Amorous mourning; abandoning the image of the other.
(b) Mourning the death on a loved one.
(c) Leaving one's country of birth.
(d) Leaving behind old images of the self.

3. Which relationship dynamic does the section of the text entitled "Domnei" or "dependency" describe?
(a) The couple decides to discuss problems of dependency.
(b) The loved object is much too dependent on the amorous subject.
(c) The amorous subject is subjugated to the loved object.
(d) Common belief always places the woman in the submissive role.

4. Which of the following phrases describes the informer in the section called The Informer?
(a) A rival.
(b) An enemy who tries to destroy the subject.
(c) A malicious gossip.
(d) A friendly figure who wounds the subject.

5. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?
(a) A book in which the delirious hero mistakes an image for the actual woman he loves.
(b) A goddess from classical Greek mythology.
(c) One of Sigmund Freud's female patients.
(d) A play about a 19th-century society woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"

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

3. In the section called Fade-out, where does the other's fade-out reside?

4. Which famous composer does the author quote in the section on crying?

5. What causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In the section I Love You, what happens to the amorous subject when he finally here's the words "I love you" returned to him? Cite a couple examples.

4. In Inexpressible Love/To Write, what does the narrator suggest when he says "I cannot write myself"?

5. How does the section Fade-Out connect the loved beings withdrawal with the Mother?

6. In The Dedication, how does the act of giving follow "the family model"?

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

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

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

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

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