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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 best form in which to tell the story of love?

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

3. What clothing is Werther wearing when he first dances with Charlotte?

4. To whom does the following quote belong,"I therefore have decked myself out in finery so that I might be in the company of a fine young man?"

5. In "Novel/Drama," which of the following is true about the writing of the amorous subject's love story?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the scenario in At Fault/Faults between the lover and the loved one at the train station.

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

7. Briefly state what Werther writes in his letter to Charlotte and what it signifies in The Love Letter/Letter.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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?

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