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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. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To Gide riding a train.
(b) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.
(c) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.
(d) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.
2. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Dionysus.
3. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?
(a) Jealousy and fear of injury and abandonment.
(b) Shame in front of others.
(c) Impatience and irritability.
(d) Sadness and despondency.
4. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(b) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(c) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(d) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
5. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Meno.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
2. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?
3. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
4. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?
5. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Waiting, how is "the scenography of waiting" structured?
2. In "I have an Other-ache"/Compassion, in relation to the other's suffering, the lover sees himself as a Mother, but an insufficient one-why?
3. In "Tutti Sistemati"/Pigeonholed, how does the lover perceive the system inhabited by others?
4. In Agony/Anxiety, why does the author compare the lover to a psychotic who fears a breakdown?
5. In The Heart, how does the author compare the heart to other attributes such as wit?
6. In Atopos, how does the lover see himself in relation to the other?
7. How does the mother-child relationship relate to the lover's feelings about the other's absence?
8. Describe the effect that the lover hope to achieve by adopting ascetic behavior.
9. In Laetitia/To Circumscribe, what are two pleasures the narrator dreams of, and which one does he aspire to.
10. In "Adorable!," the author notes how the lover sees the other as a Whole; what does he mean?
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