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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 called "Talking," how does the lover's discourse change when the amorous subject speaks about love?
(a) From an abstract philosophical discourse about love to a personal declaration of love.
(b) From a declaration of love to a renouncement of love.
(c) From a personal declaration of love to an abstract philosophical discourse about love.
(d) From a rejection of love to a a declaration of love.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?

2. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?

3. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?

4. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?

5. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the ascetic process that the lover goes through in the section entitled To Be Ascetic/Askesis?

2. In Atopos, how does the lover see himself in relation to the other?

3. Describe the effect that the lover hope to achieve by adopting ascetic behavior.

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

5. Discuss the function of the dark glasses in Dark Glasses/To Hide.

6. In "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment, what does the author mean when he says that fulfillments are not spoken?

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

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

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

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

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