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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. The Unknowable describes which of the following situations?
(a) The lover realizes that the loved being is unknowable.
(b) The meaning of love is unknowable.
(c) The past is unknowable.
(d) The lover will never know how to achieve happiness.

2. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?
(a) With anyone who cannot find their ideal mate.
(b) With every character or person who occupies the same place in love as he does.
(c) With the oppressed.
(d) With images of death.

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

4. What is the "ordeal" described in the section called Fade-out.
(a) The lover's favorite jeans fade.
(b) The loved being's physical beauty begins to fade.
(c) For no apparent reason the loved being withdraws from all contact.
(d) The loved being's mother dies.

5. In Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/habiliment, what specifically does the "blue coat and yellow vest" refer to?
(a) To clothing worn by the character Werther.
(b) To clothing worn by the other that becomes a fetish object.
(c) To the costume of travelers.
(d) To the narrator's favorite outfit.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the lover's state in "We are our own demons?"

2. What does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'

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

4. In the section called Fade-out, where does the other's fade-out reside?

5. Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/Habiliment refers, in general, to which kind of clothing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the functioning of the loquela in the section entitled The Loquela.

2. In Love's Languor/Languor, how is the Satyr contrasted with languor?

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

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

6. How does the section Fade-Out connect the loved beings withdrawal with the Mother?

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

8. 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.

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

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

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