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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. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?
(a) The feelings that arise during a late night at work.
(b) The anxious lover's feeling of withdrawal from the world and his surroundings.
(c) The amorous subject's state of mind upon waking.
(d) The lover's nervous breakdown after a break up.

2. "In the loving calm of your arms" describes the embrace of total union between lovers. What contradiction does the lover experience?
(a) The lover is both mother and father.
(b) The lover is both child and adult.
(c) The lover feels both male and female.
(d) The lover is neither completely awake or asleep.

3. What is another name used in The Ribbon/Objects to describe the lover's attachment to an object that belonged to the beloved?
(a) Nostalgia.
(b) Mania.
(c) Fetishism.
(d) Fanaticism.

4. What is the best form in which to tell the story of love?
(a) Personal letters.
(b) The novel.
(c) Ancient, declamatory drama.
(d) Poetry.

5. 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) That worn by the subject during the amorous encounter or with the intention to seduce.
(c) What the subject hopes to see the object of love wear.
(d) The clothes worn by the object of love at their first meeting.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "Dedication," the author presents an internal dialogue that accompanies which of the following acts?

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

4. How does the informer wound the subject?

5. To what does the "ghost ship," in the section entitled The Ghost Ship/Errantry refer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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