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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 kind of acts does the lover perform in The Last Leaf/Magic.
(a) Acts of infidelity.
(b) Acts of selfless love.
(c) Magic consultations, secret rites, and votive actions.
(d) Meditations, contemplations, and silences.

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

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

4. 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.

5. What is the definition of languor offered in the section Love's Languor?
(a) A feeling of drowsiness after an evening with the beloved.
(b) A feeling of gentle laziness.
(c) A continuous state of amorous desire without the will to possess.
(d) A feeling of pleasurable melancholy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lover's condition cause him to do in "We are our own demons?"

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

3. What is the source of the embarrassment experienced by parties in a love triangle in "Looking embarrassed?"

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. "Looking embarrassed"/Embarrassment: Describe the scene of embarrassment from Werther cited in this section.

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

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