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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What is the best form in which to tell the story of love?
(a) Personal letters.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Ancient, declamatory drama.
(d) The novel.
2. 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 the the amorous subject could write his own love story.
(c) Only the Other could write the amorous subject's love story. He cannot do it himself.
(d) Only a professional could write the novel of the amorous subject's love affair.
3. What causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?
(a) The object of desire rejects his offering of oranges.
(b) The object of desire is oblivious to his gift.
(c) The object of desire shares the oranges he gave her with a neighbor.
(d) The object of desire receives his gift and refuses to share it.
4. In "Exuberance," which two literary characters does the author compare to discuss the "economy of pure expenditure" in love?
(a) The narrator and Charlus from the novel The Guermantes' Way.
(b) Werther and Albert from the novel Werther.
(c) Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.
(d) Werther and Charlotte from the novel Werther.
5. Which one of the following authors does Barthes cite in this section on the demonic life of a lover?
(a) Proust.
(b) Freud.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Goethe.
6. Match the term "loquela" with the correct phrase.
(a) "I know that you know that I know."
(b) "I fall in love again and again."
(c) "I doom myself to blackmail."
(d) "I keep swallowing and regurgitating my wound."
7. 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) We must be cautious with our correspondence.
(c) I am tired of your long letters.
(d) I wish you would visit instead of writing.
8. What is the dual nature of the figure of Gradiva?
(a) Union and separation.
(b) Knowledge and ignorance.
(c) Salvation and torment.
(d) Love and hate.
9. What is the definition of languor offered in the section Love's Languor?
(a) A feeling of gentle laziness.
(b) A feeling of pleasurable melancholy.
(c) A feeling of drowsiness after an evening with the beloved.
(d) A continuous state of amorous desire without the will to possess.
10. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?
(a) To the loved one and to that person's parents.
(b) To the other's dependency and to that of the other's children.
(c) To the loved one and to the loved one's dependency.
(d) To the opinions of society and to the opinions of the other.
11. Which of the following phrases describes the informer in the section called The Informer?
(a) A malicious gossip.
(b) A rival.
(c) An enemy who tries to destroy the subject.
(d) A friendly figure who wounds the subject.
12. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover's discourse do to the other?
(a) It causes him to reply in kind.
(b) It irritates him.
(c) It drives him to suicide.
(d) It stifles him, imposing silence.
13. Which famous composer does the author quote in the section on crying?
(a) Shubert.
(b) Verdi.
(c) Satie.
(d) Bach.
14. What does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'
(a) Drinks more coffee.
(b) Tries to participate in banal conversations and discourse.
(c) Takes a walk in nature.
(d) Visits a therapist to discuss the crisis.
15. What does the lover's condition cause him to do in "We are our own demons?"
(a) To cry frequently and need reassurance.
(b) To laugh and celebrate.
(c) To place the body and its fulfillment before everything else.
(d) To inflict harm on himself; to expel himself from love's paradise.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the lover give the other when he offers a gift?
2. What is another name used in The Ribbon/Objects to describe the lover's attachment to an object that belonged to the beloved?
3. What clothing is Werther wearing when he first dances with Charlotte?
4. What is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"
5. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what gets characterized as obscene in contemporary society?
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