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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. According to this section in the text, what is the best reaction to the other's suffering?

2. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?

3. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?

4. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

5. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Adorable!," the author notes how the lover sees the other as a Whole; what does he mean?

2. How does Catastrophe discuss the "amorous catastrophe" experienced by the lover?

3. In "When my finger accidentally. . ."/Contacts, what does the author imagine Werther's reaction to be when he accidentally touches Charlotte?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. Discuss the example of Werther's love for Charlotte that the author uses to explain annulment in To Love Love/Annulment.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

"I love you" is a peculiar phrase because, as the author states in I-Love-You (pg. 147), it is the metaphor of nothing else: it only has meaning at the moment it is uttered. Analyze the author's argument in this section.

- How does he describe the utterance in linguistic terms, i.e. how does it fit into language?

- What are the various responses to this utterance, both acceptable and unacceptable to the lover's ears?

- How is I-love-you an "active force," and against what?

Essay Topic 2

In Annulment (p. 31) and Dedication (p. 75), the author shows the process by which the lover's attentions can turn the other into an object.

- Describe how the lover's idealization of the other is actually a form of annulment. Is this illusion created around the other typical of love relationships?

- What is the result of the lover's objectification of the other?

- In Dedication, the process of making the other into an object functions a little differently-how?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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