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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. Which of the following best describes the lover's state in "We are our own demons?"
2. In "Inexpressible Love," what two powerful myths does the author mention?
3. In the same section, the author notes that to write about love is to "confront the muck of language"; which of the following describes this problem?
4. In the section called Fade-out, where does the other's fade-out reside?
5. "In the loving calm of your arms" describes the embrace of total union between lovers. What contradiction does the lover experience?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the lover's struggle with demons in "We are our own demons"/Demons.
2. List some of the scenarios described by the narrator to illustrate the sense of disreality in The World Thunderstruck/Disreality.
3. How does the section Fade-Out connect the loved beings withdrawal with the Mother?
4. Describe the lover's process of identification, as seen in the character Werther, in the section entitled Identifications.
5. In Love's Languor/Languor, how is the Satyr contrasted with languor?
6. Describe the scenario in At Fault/Faults between the lover and the loved one at the train station.
7. What object does the lover compare himself to in This can't go on/Unbearable?
8. In The Ghost Ship/Errantry, why is the lover doomed to wander?
9. In The Dedication, how does the act of giving follow "the family model"?
10. "Looking embarrassed"/Embarrassment: Describe the scene of embarrassment from Werther cited in this section.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
Elaborate on the notion that the word "adorable" (Adorable, p. 18) represents a failure in language.
- Why, and on whose part, does this this failure occur?
- How does the lover view his desire and how does this affect his relationship to language?
- How does the term "adorable" function?
Essay Topic 3
On the first page of the book, the author claims that the lover's discourse functions as an affirmation. He discusses this affirmation again in Affirmation (pg. 22), Alone (p. 210) and Signs (p. 214).
- What is the status of love and of the lover's discourse in society?
- What is it defining itself against and why? Is it excluded? How?
- Why is love classified as "intractable"?
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