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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 blue coat and yellow vest.
(b) A white shirt and riding boots.
(c) Old work clothes.
(d) A formal black suit.

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

3. Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/Habiliment refers, in general, to which kind of clothing?
(a) That which the lover borrows from the loved being.
(b) The clothes worn by the object of love at their first meeting.
(c) What the subject hopes to see the object of love wear.
(d) That worn by the subject during the amorous encounter or with the intention to seduce.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does that composer claim regarding tears?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

7. 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.

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

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

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

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