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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 clothing is Werther wearing when he first dances with Charlotte?
(a) A white shirt and riding boots.
(b) A blue coat and yellow vest.
(c) A formal black suit.
(d) Old work clothes.

2. What is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"
(a) "I love you, too. "
(b) "So do I."
(c) Silence.
(d) "Really?"

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

4. Select the outcome(s) with which the section Ideas of Solution/Outcomes is concerned.
(a) The possible outcomes of the other's illness.
(b) The possible outcome of a novel by Goethe.
(c) The possible outcome of a wager.
(d) The possible outcomes of the amorous crisis.

5. What does that composer claim regarding tears?
(a) Never let your lover see you cry.
(b) Poetry is more eloquent than tears.
(c) One tear will say more than words.
(d) Tears are for the weak and unmanly.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following describes the lover's madness in "I am crazy"/mad?

2. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?

3. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?

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

5. Which of the following scenarios is described in No Answer/Silence?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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.

10. List some of the scenarios described by the narrator to illustrate the sense of disreality in The World Thunderstruck/Disreality.

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