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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 literary lover did thousands of young men identify with and imitate in their dress and actions?
(a) Heinrich.
(b) Albert.
(c) Werther.
(d) Herr Schmidt.

2. In "Dedication," what effect can writing, as a form of amorous dedication, have on the other?
(a) It can inspire tenderness.
(b) It can leave the other cold.
(c) It can smother the other.
(d) It can make the other vain.

3. What observation is made about the amorous subject in the section In Praise of Tears/Crying?
(a) He is emotionally immature.
(b) He dislikes it when the other cries.
(c) He represses his tears.
(d) He has a propensity for tears.

4. To what does the "ghost ship," in the section entitled The Ghost Ship/Errantry refer?
(a) The lover dreams of sailing the world with the object of desire.
(b) The errant lover wanders from love to love, believing in the quest for fulfillment.
(c) The lover is haunted by terrible memories.
(d) The lover becomes a ghost of his former self.

5. Match the term "loquela" with the correct phrase.
(a) "I know that you know that I know."
(b) "I fall in love again and again."
(c) "I keep swallowing and regurgitating my wound."
(d) "I doom myself to blackmail."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Clouds, why is Herr Schmidt upset?

2. Select the outcome(s) with which the section Ideas of Solution/Outcomes is concerned.

3. What is the narrator's definition of the image in the section Images?

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

5. Which one of the following authors does Barthes cite in this section on the demonic life of a lover?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. In Domnei/Dependency, what does the lover mean when he says: "I am twice subject?"

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

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

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

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

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

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