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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"
(a) As a symbol of fertility.
(b) As a tired metaphor for romance.
(c) As a pretext for intimacy.
(d) As a gift-object and an organ of desire.

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

3. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
(a) Foreign travel.
(b) Complete rejection of society.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Self-punishment and gentle retreat.

4. 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 subtle pleasure.
(c) A lively pleasure.
(d) A lifelong pleasure.

5. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?
(a) The object of love and the lover's rival.
(b) The amorous subject and his mother.
(c) The amorous subject and the object of love.
(d) The amorous subject and his rival.

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

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

8. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?
(a) The traveler's desire to keep moving.
(b) The need to stereotype others.
(c) The lover's desire to fit into a particular life structure.
(d) The desire to escape social constraints and labels.

9. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?
(a) Feelings of sadness over the impossibility of fulfillment.
(b) Fulfilling one's childhood dreams.
(c) The will to complete fulfillment in love that exceeds language.
(d) Self-actualization that bypasses the need for the other.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

2. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?

3. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?

4. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?

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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