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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 does the lover give the other when he offers a gift?
(a) Something he has touched and invested with emotion.
(b) An expensive token of affection.
(c) Something useless and impractical.
(d) A souvenir of happier times.

2. In The Love Letter, what single piece of information is presented with variation?
(a) I wish you were here.
(b) I desire you.
(c) I am thinking of you.
(d) Do not forget me.

3. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"
(a) Aggressive.
(b) Prone to negativity.
(c) Vulnerable and sensitive to ridicule.
(d) Detached.

4. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what gets characterized as obscene in contemporary society?
(a) Greed.
(b) Sexuality.
(c) Sentimentality.
(d) Rationality.

5. How does the informer wound the subject?
(a) He provides commonplace information about the loved being.
(b) He competes for the loved beings affections.
(c) He sabotages the subjects relationship with the other.
(d) He tells lies about the loved being.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do a person's tears prove to him?

2. What does the lover acknowledge in This can't go on/Unbearable?

3. What observation is made about the amorous subject in the section In Praise of Tears/Crying?

4. What does that composer claim regarding tears?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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