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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 author does the quotation "And the night illuminated the night" come from?

2. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?

3. What does the lover's condition cause him to do in "We are our own demons?"

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

5. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the section Fade-Out connect the loved beings withdrawal with the Mother?

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

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

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

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

6. "I am crazy"/Mad: How is the lover's madness metaphorical?

7. Describe the lover's struggle with demons in "We are our own demons"/Demons.

8. In Love's Languor/Languor, how is the Satyr contrasted with languor?

9. What object does the lover compare himself to in This can't go on/Unbearable?

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

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

In Annulment (p. 31) and Dedication (p. 75), the author shows the process by which the lover's attentions can turn the other into an object.

- Describe how the lover's idealization of the other is actually a form of annulment. Is this illusion created around the other typical of love relationships?

- What is the result of the lover's objectification of the other?

- In Dedication, the process of making the other into an object functions a little differently-how?

Essay Topic 3

"I love you" is a peculiar phrase because, as the author states in I-Love-You (pg. 147), it is the metaphor of nothing else: it only has meaning at the moment it is uttered. Analyze the author's argument in this section.

- How does he describe the utterance in linguistic terms, i.e. how does it fit into language?

- What are the various responses to this utterance, both acceptable and unacceptable to the lover's ears?

- How is I-love-you an "active force," and against what?

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