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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. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?
(a) As needing his protection.
(b) As an imperfect lover.
(c) As unobtainable.
(d) As the perfect lover.

2. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"
(a) The subject deeply misses the loved object when that person is absent.
(b) The subject feels strong compassion towards the loved object when that person is suffering.
(c) The subject experiences pain caused by an insensitive comment made by the other.
(d) The subject is tired of listening to the other's problems.

3. When does this desire affect the subject?
(a) When the subject is irritated.
(b) When the subject is in a state of despair or fulfillment.
(c) When the subject is in a state of raw panic.
(d) When the subject is bored.

4. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Plato.
(b) Meno.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Socrates.

5. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?
(a) Jealousy and fear of injury and abandonment.
(b) Impatience and irritability.
(c) Sadness and despondency.
(d) Shame in front of others.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?

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

3. 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?

4. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

5. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does Catastrophe discuss the "amorous catastrophe" experienced by the lover?

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

6. In Laetitia/To Circumscribe, what are two pleasures the narrator dreams of, and which one does he aspire to.

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

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

9. Describe the lover's predicament with regard to understanding love in "I want to understand."

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

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