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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. Match the term "loquela" with the correct phrase.

2. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?

3. What do a person's tears prove to him?

4. To which ribbon does the title of the section The Ribbon/Objects refer?

5. In "Show me whom to desire"/Induction, the narrator notes that there is no desire without _________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. Exuberance/Expenditure: Discuss the contrast the author makes between the characters Werther and Albert.

2. Describe the functioning of the loquela in the section entitled The Loquela.

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

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

5. Describe the lover's process of identification, as seen in the character Werther, in the section entitled Identifications.

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

7. 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?

8. In Images, what is the lover's relationship to visual images he sees?

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

10. In The Dedication, how does the act of giving follow "the family model"?

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 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?

Essay Topic 3

In this essay, you will discuss the nature of ravishment as outlined in the text, showing how the modern form draws from and transforms early myths of the ravisher.

1) Contrast the ancient myth of the ravisher with the modern concept of ravishment. How does the object of rape become the subject of love?

2) Discuss the nature of the lover's ravishment. How is it described in the text? What state precedes this ravishment and why?

3) What does the element of surprise have to do with ravishment, in both early and modern versions?

4) What is the eventual conclusion to this state?

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