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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?

2. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

3. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?

4. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?

5. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Connivance, what position does the other (the object of desire) occupy in the lover's conversation with his rival?

2. Describe the effect that the lover hope to achieve by adopting ascetic behavior.

3. Describe the lover's predicament with regard to understanding love in "I want to understand."

4. What is the lover's attitude towards choice in "What is to be done?"/Behavior?

5. In Laetitia/To Circumscribe, what are two pleasures the narrator dreams of, and which one does he aspire to.

6. Briefly describe the lover's sense of engulfment in the section "I am engulfed, I succumb..."/To Be Engulfed.

7. Discuss the function of the dark glasses in Dark Glasses/To Hide.

8. In Waiting, how is "the scenography of waiting" structured?

9. What is the ascetic process that the lover goes through in the section entitled To Be Ascetic/Askesis?

10. How does the mother-child relationship relate to the lover's feelings about the other's absence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Ravishment, the myth of love at first sight is discussed at length. Love at first sight or ravishment is in fact drawn explicitly from the image-repertoire.

- How does the text describe love at first sight?

- What are the conditions needed for it to occur?

- How does the visual function, e.g. what is the significance of the "scene?"

- How does the aural function?

- Does love at first sight really happen, or is it something that takes shape in the lover's mind upon reflection?

Essay Topic 2

In I-Love-You, the author claims that this utterance is on the side of expenditure (pg. 154.) Likewise, he sees the lover as a figure of expenditure (Expenditure, pg. 84.)

- Define the word "expenditure."

- Discuss I-Love-You and the lover's relation to expenditure.

- What is the result of excessive expenditure for the lover?

Essay Topic 3

The lover goes through a process of identification in Habiliment (pg. 126) and Identification (pg. 129.) This identification structures the lover's view of himself in the love relationship, both through his view of the beloved and of other lovers.

- Describe how the lover identifies with the other. How does his identification present itself?

- How is clothing involved in this process?

- In Identifications (pg. 129), what shape does the lover's identification take? With whom does he identify and why?

- How was this process of identification shown historically?

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