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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 "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover's discourse do to the other?
(a) It causes him to reply in kind.
(b) It drives him to suicide.
(c) It stifles him, imposing silence.
(d) It irritates him.

2. What kind of acts does the lover perform in The Last Leaf/Magic.
(a) Acts of selfless love.
(b) Magic consultations, secret rites, and votive actions.
(c) Meditations, contemplations, and silences.
(d) Acts of infidelity.

3. 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 play about a 19th-century society woman.
(c) A goddess from classical Greek mythology.
(d) One of Sigmund Freud's female patients.

4. What is the source of the embarrassment experienced by parties in a love triangle in "Looking embarrassed?"
(a) An unsolicited remark.
(b) Unspoken knowledge shared by everyone.
(c) A secret shared by two of the people in the group.
(d) Lack of understanding.

5. In "Inexpressible Love," what two powerful myths does the author mention?
(a) That true love can never be found and that only poets can write about love.
(b) That sublimated love engenders beautiful discourse and that one can write about one's passion.
(c) That true love is eternal and that it is the most ancient story to tell.
(d) That writing about love heals the heart and that everyone has a soulmate.

Short Answer Questions

1. "In the loving calm of your arms" describes the embrace of total union between lovers. What contradiction does the lover experience?

2. What is the definition of languor offered in the section Love's Languor?

3. To which ribbon does the title of the section The Ribbon/Objects refer?

4. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what gets characterized as obscene in contemporary society?

5. What is the "ordeal" described in the section called Fade-out.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the lover's process of identification, as seen in the character Werther, in the section entitled Identifications.

6. 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.

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

8. What kind of scenes does the lover image in Ideas of Solution/Outcomes?

9. The Unknowable has to do with the lover's ability, or lack thereof, to know the other: what conclusion does the lover come to in this section?

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

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