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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?
(a) Dionysus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Orpheus.

3. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover suffers from seeing the other diminished and excluded from the sentiment he or she provoked.
(b) The lover becomes tired of constantly seeking new partners.
(c) The lover has to fight for autonomy and a sense of self.
(d) There is a sense of claustrophobia on the part of the lover.

4. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
(a) As signs of love.
(b) As hallucinations.
(c) As random unrelated events.
(d) As a kind of fate.

5. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"
(a) The inner motivations for leaving a relationship.
(b) The role of absence in film narratives.
(c) A process whereby the lover's absence is transformed into an abandonment.
(d) The lover's lack of concern for the absent love object.

6. According to this section in the text, what is the best reaction to the other's suffering?
(a) Sympathy, delicacy, and reassurance.
(b) Empathy, advice, and affection.
(c) Compassion, moral support, and physical contact.
(d) Detachment, delicacy, and compassion.

7. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.
(b) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.
(c) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.

8. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?
(a) Evidence of imperfection.
(b) The meaning of beauty.
(c) Unexpressed thoughts.
(d) The cause of his desire.

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

10. At the beginning of the book, in the section entitled, "How this book is structured," what is the name that the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Figures.
(b) Abstracts.
(c) Chapters.
(d) References.

11. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?
(a) As nirvana, which the lover hopes to attain.
(b) As suffering, which the lover hopes to inflict on the other.
(c) As nothingness, which the lover hopes to attain.
(d) As causality, which the lover wishes to escape from.

12. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"
(a) The failure of the lover's desire when confronted which the actual adored object.
(b) The failure of love to live up to expectations.
(c) The failure of language employed by the lover to adequately describe the loved object.
(d) The failure of the loved object to respond to words like "adorable."

13. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?
(a) The emotional and the physical.
(b) The body proper such as the skin, eyes, and the voice.
(c) Flesh and spirit.
(d) The imagined body and the actual body.

14. In "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?
(a) The amorous subject's happiness is increased by random events.
(b) The amorous subject is ambivalent about random events.
(c) The amorous subject is oblivious to random events.
(d) The amorous subject's happiness is destroyed by random events.

15. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of financial security.
(b) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.
(c) The loss of someone to talk to.
(d) The loss of belief in true love.

Short Answer Questions

1. When does this desire affect the subject?

2. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

3. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?

4. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?

5. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"

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