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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. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?

2. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?

3. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

4. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?

5. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Atopos, how does the lover associate the other with innocence?

4. In The Heart, how does the author compare the heart to other attributes such as wit?

5. Describe the two affirmations of love discussed at the end of the section entitled Intractable/Affirmation.

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

7. In "Tutti Sistemati"/Pigeonholed, how does the lover perceive the system inhabited by others?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the idea of the figure that Roland Barthes outlines in the beginning of the book.

- What is a figure, according to his definition?

- Why did he choose this structure for the text?

- How do figures function, generally, and in the context of the lover's discourse?

Essay Topic 2

"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 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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