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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 language does the word "atopos" come from?

2. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?

3. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

4. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. In the section called The Tip of the Nose/Alteration, the author uses a scene between Werther and Charlotte from the novel Werther to represent the lover's change in attitude toward the loved one. What happens in this scene and what does it demonstrate?

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

7. In Atopos, how does the lover see himself in relation to the other?

8. In "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment, what does the author mean when he says that fulfillments are not spoken?

9. In Agony/Anxiety, why does the author compare the lover to a psychotic who fears a breakdown?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Jealousy, the author says that "Werther's jealousy derives from Images" (pg. 144.) Likewise, in Images (pg. 132), the author describes how Werther is affected by a particular scene involving Charlotte. The image clearly has a powerful effect on the lover. Why?

- What does the image represent?

- How does the lover interpret various images and what do they become for him?

- How does the image inform desire? (pg. 145.)

- What is the nature of the jealousy that images provoke?

Essay Topic 2

The lover would like to surround the other and their love in a cocoon of intimacy that is uniquely theirs. Yet, repeatedly the lover is reminded through images, interactions, or through language, that the other also belongs to the world. Discuss this dynamic in several of the figures, for example, Alteration (pg. 25), The Orange/Irksome (pg. 110), and Tenderness (pg. 224.) Does the lover's image of the other shift as a result?

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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