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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?
(a) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pain.
(b) The lover's attempt to circumscribe boredom.
(c) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pleasure.
(d) The lover's refusal to circumscribe pleasure.

4. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
(a) To the child's need for approval.
(b) To the mother's absence.
(c) To the subject's first disappointment in love.
(d) To the father's absence.

5. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.
(b) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.
(c) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.
(d) The lover's desire annuls the other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?

2. 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?

3. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?

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

5. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"

Short Essay Questions

1. In Waiting, how is "the scenography of waiting" structured?

2. In Agony/Anxiety, why does the author compare the lover to a psychotic who fears a breakdown?

3. In Atopos, how does the lover associate the other with innocence?

4. Discuss the example of Werther's love for Charlotte that the author uses to explain annulment in To Love Love/Annulment.

5. In The Heart, how does the author compare the heart to other attributes such as wit?

6. In "When my finger accidentally. . ."/Contacts, what does the author imagine Werther's reaction to be when he accidentally touches Charlotte?

7. How does the mother-child relationship relate to the lover's feelings about the other's absence?

8. What is the lover's attitude towards choice in "What is to be done?"/Behavior?

9. In "Tutti Sistemati"/Pigeonholed, how does the lover perceive the system inhabited by others?

10. Briefly describe the lover's sense of engulfment in the section "I am engulfed, I succumb..."/To Be Engulfed.

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