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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 "Special Days"/Festivity, what analogy is used to describe the lover's meeting with the loved being?
(a) The child at a circus.
(b) The prisoner released from captivity.
(c) The child laughing with joy at the sight of the mother.
(d) A family on a picnic.

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

3. What is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"
(a) "I love you, too. "
(b) "So do I."
(c) "Really?"
(d) Silence.

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

5. What do a person's tears prove to him?
(a) That his love is real.
(b) That he has lost touch with reality.
(c) That he must cultivate poetry.
(d) That he is weak.

Short Answer Questions

1. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?

2. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"

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

4. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what is the author's first example of obscenity?

5. Which famous composer does the author quote in the section on crying?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the lover's struggle with demons in "We are our own demons"/Demons.

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

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

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