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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 topic does the figure I Love You discuss?
(a) The act of saying "I love you," the repeated utterance.
(b) The lover's desire to please the beloved.
(c) The meaning of love.
(d) The poetic meaning of "I love you."

2. In "Show me whom to desire"/Induction, the narrator notes that there is no desire without _________________.
(a) Intrigue.
(b) Prohibition.
(c) Confusion.
(d) Sadness.

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

4. What is the narrator's definition of the image in the section Images?
(a) That from which I am excluded.
(b) A visual feast.
(c) The lover's fantasy of the beloved.
(d) A romantic painting.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the informer wound the subject?

3. What does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'

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

5. In Jealousy, what does Werther's jealousy derive from, according to the author?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the relation between the informer, the lover, and the loved being in The Informer.

4. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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