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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Anger.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Boredom.

2. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?
(a) Sade.
(b) Novalis.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Ruysbroek.

3. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Meno.
(d) Nietzsche.

4. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.
(b) It does not have any effect on language.
(c) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.
(d) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.

5. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
(a) Through appearance (short hair, dark glasses) and monk-like habits (serious study, rising early).
(b) Through refusing to speak to friends about his condition.
(c) Through long walks alone in the desert.
(d) Through fasting, sexual abstinence, and total seclusion.

6. In "What is to be done?" which of the following describes the behavior of the amorous subject?
(a) Everything is over-interpreted and spontaneity becomes impossible.
(b) Self-indulgent with little concern for others' feelings.
(c) Needy.
(d) Awkwardly silent.

7. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?
(a) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.
(b) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.
(c) The narrator describes burning his love letters.
(d) The narrator writes a business letter instead of a love letter.

8. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?
(a) Solving a difficult social crisis.
(b) Deciding when to leave the other.
(c) Choosing between two alternatives: this, or that.
(d) Finding a solution to a dispute.

9. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?
(a) As the ultimate goal for every single person.
(b) As an either/or situation: a matter of success or failure, victory or defeat.
(c) As impossible, and therefore more desirable.
(d) As a compromise that must be endured for the sake of society.

10. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?
(a) Untranslatable.
(b) Indolent.
(c) Stereotype.
(d) Unclassifiable.

11. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?
(a) A forbidden pleasure.
(b) A lifelong pleasure.
(c) A subtle pleasure.
(d) A lively pleasure.

12. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Lists of terms.
(b) Figments of the imagination.
(c) Literary musings.
(d) Fragments of discourse.

13. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?
(a) The lover feels excessive distress.
(b) The lover remains unaffected.
(c) The lover becomes shy and nervous.
(d) The lover creates meaning from the contact.

14. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?
(a) To the missing tip of a nose, and nothing else.
(b) To a sewing procedure, which is a metaphor in the text.
(c) To the production of a counter-image of the loved object.
(d) To the rejection of perfection by the lover.

15. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?
(a) Active despair and passive despair.
(b) Physical despair and mental despair.
(c) Angry despair (rage) and hopeless despair (depression).
(d) Gentle despair (active resignation) and violent despair (total destruction).

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?

2. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

3. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?

4. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?

5. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?

(see the answer keys)

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