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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 causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?

2. Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/Habiliment refers, in general, to which kind of clothing?

3. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?

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

5. Which of the following characterizes the figure "night" in the section "And the night illuminated the night"/Night?

Short Essay Questions

1. In The Ghost Ship/Errantry, why is the lover doomed to wander?

2. In the section I Love You, what happens to the amorous subject when he finally here's the words "I love you" returned to him? Cite a couple examples.

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

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

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

6. Describe the type of jealousy displayed by Werther in the figure Jealousy.

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

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

9. Novel/Drama: Why does the form in which a love story is told matter?

10. Briefly describe the process of induction in the figure "Show me whom to desire"/Induction.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Continuing with the theme of language, discuss the myth that love can be "sublimated in aesthetic creation" in "To Write" (pg. 97.)

- Outline the two myths (Socratic and romantic), that the author mentions.

- Discuss the examples of the failure of amorous creation such as Werther's drawing and the haiku. Why do these attempts fail?

- What obstructs amorous writing? What does the author mean when he says that language is both "too much" and "too little?"

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

In the short paragraph that precedes the author's discussion of figures, he writes that "the lover is not to be reduced to a single symptomal subject."

- Explain what the author means when he says that the lover is not just a single individual.

- Why does the author choose to write with the first person pronoun ("I") and what does it show or signify?

- How does the lover speak and for whom is the discourse intended?

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