1. To which period in the love relationship does the figure "How blue the sky was"/Encounter refer?
(a) The calm after a big argument.
(b) The first month of a relationship.
(c) The period between love at first sight and the beginning of difficulties.
(d) The first meeting between future lovers.

2. What does the "scenography of waiting" refer to?
(a) A book written by Schönberg that deals with waiting.
(b) A traumatic scene from the narrator's childhood that he rehearses mentally.
(c) A drama in which the narrator goes through the different stages of waiting and their associated actions and emotions.
(d) A French opera.

3. In "Dedication," the author presents an internal dialogue that accompanies which of the following acts?
(a) The dedication of one's life to a cause.
(b) Receiving a gift from the other.
(c) The act of giving a gift, or some other form of dedication, to the object of love.
(d) Making a formal commitment to the other.

4. What does the lover imagine and worry about in the figure 'Regretted?'
(a) He imagines his death and worries that life will go on as if nothing happened.
(b) He imagines that the other is dead and worries that he will not be able to go on.
(c) He imagines that no one will ever love him and worries he will be alone.
(d) He imagines that others wish him harm and he regrets not being kinder.

5. 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?
(a) Language is degraded and common.
(b) Language is becomes indecipherable.
(c) Language is paradoxically both too much and not enough.
(d) Language has too many meanings and cannot be controlled.