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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the lover give the other when he offers a gift?
(a) Something useless and impractical.
(b) A souvenir of happier times.
(c) An expensive token of affection.
(d) Something he has touched and invested with emotion.

2. "In the loving calm of your arms" describes the embrace of total union between lovers. What contradiction does the lover experience?
(a) The lover feels both male and female.
(b) The lover is both child and adult.
(c) The lover is neither completely awake or asleep.
(d) The lover is both mother and father.

3. What clothing is Werther wearing when he first dances with Charlotte?
(a) A formal black suit.
(b) Old work clothes.
(c) A blue coat and yellow vest.
(d) A white shirt and riding boots.

4. In "Novel/Drama," which of the following is true about the writing of the amorous subject's love story?
(a) Only a third party who has observed the relationship could write the love story.
(b) Only a professional could write the novel of the amorous subject's love affair.
(c) Only the Other could write the amorous subject's love story. He cannot do it himself.
(d) Only the the amorous subject could write his own love story.

5. What observation is made about the amorous subject in the section In Praise of Tears/Crying?
(a) He is emotionally immature.
(b) He dislikes it when the other cries.
(c) He represses his tears.
(d) He has a propensity for tears.

6. What is the definition of languor offered in the section Love's Languor?
(a) A feeling of pleasurable melancholy.
(b) A feeling of drowsiness after an evening with the beloved.
(c) A continuous state of amorous desire without the will to possess.
(d) A feeling of gentle laziness.

7. How does the informer wound the subject?
(a) He sabotages the subjects relationship with the other.
(b) He provides commonplace information about the loved being.
(c) He competes for the loved beings affections.
(d) He tells lies about the loved being.

8. What image does the author evoke to represent the "exuberance" that results from constantly expending love?
(a) An overflowing fountain.
(b) A vast desert.
(c) A deep well.
(d) A wild ocean.

9. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"
(a) Prone to negativity.
(b) Aggressive.
(c) Vulnerable and sensitive to ridicule.
(d) Detached.

10. In the section called Fade-out, where does the other's fade-out reside?
(a) In the lover's memory.
(b) In the lover's silence.
(c) In the other's voice.
(d) In the other's appearance.

11. To whom does the following quote belong,"I therefore have decked myself out in finery so that I might be in the company of a fine young man?"
(a) Gradiva.
(b) Proust.
(c) Socrates.
(d) Goethe.

12. Which of the following scenarios is described in No Answer/Silence?
(a) The amorous subject is discouraged by the other's distracted silence.
(b) The lover is anxious because his letters remain unanswered.
(c) The lover is anxious because his calls go unanswered.
(d) The amorous subject does not like to be alone.

13. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?
(a) To the opinions of society and to the opinions of the other.
(b) To the loved one and to that person's parents.
(c) To the other's dependency and to that of the other's children.
(d) To the loved one and to the loved one's dependency.

14. What does the young Freud say to his fiancée in The Love Letter?
(a) I shall stop writing you if you do not write me back.
(b) I am tired of your long letters.
(c) We must be cautious with our correspondence.
(d) I wish you would visit instead of writing.

15. Match the term "loquela" with the correct phrase.
(a) "I doom myself to blackmail."
(b) "I know that you know that I know."
(c) "I keep swallowing and regurgitating my wound."
(d) "I fall in love again and again."

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the following authors does Barthes cite in this section on the demonic life of a lover?

2. What does the author note about crying in the modern era?

3. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?

4. To what does the "ghost ship," in the section entitled The Ghost Ship/Errantry refer?

5. Select the outcome(s) with which the section Ideas of Solution/Outcomes is concerned.

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