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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 lover's nervous breakdown after a break up.
(b) The feelings that arise during a late night at work.
(c) The anxious lover's feeling of withdrawal from the world and his surroundings.
(d) The amorous subject's state of mind upon waking.

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

3. Which one of the following authors does Barthes cite in this section on the demonic life of a lover?
(a) Proust.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Freud.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. Which famous composer does the author quote in the section on crying?
(a) Verdi.
(b) Satie.
(c) Shubert.
(d) Bach.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is another name used in The Ribbon/Objects to describe the lover's attachment to an object that belonged to the beloved?

4. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?

5. Which of the following phrases describes the informer in the section called The Informer?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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