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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 Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what gets characterized as obscene in contemporary society?
(a) Sentimentality.
(b) Rationality.
(c) Greed.
(d) Sexuality.

2. What does the lover's condition cause him to do in "We are our own demons?"
(a) To laugh and celebrate.
(b) To inflict harm on himself; to expel himself from love's paradise.
(c) To place the body and its fulfillment before everything else.
(d) To cry frequently and need reassurance.

3. What does the lover acknowledge in This can't go on/Unbearable?
(a) The Unknowable.
(b) The end of desire.
(c) The sacrifices the other has made.
(d) The Unbearable.

4. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?
(a) I am not someone else.
(b) "I" is an other.
(c) Madness is an illness.
(d) The other is mad as well.

5. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what is the author's first example of obscenity?
(a) A Japanese haiku about love.
(b) Werther's obvious love for Charlotte.
(c) A poem by Sappho.
(d) Each occasion in the text that the word "love" is used.

Short Answer Questions

1. What topic does the figure I Love You discuss?

2. What do the clouds symbolize in the section by the same name?

3. Which relationship dynamic does the section of the text entitled "Domnei" or "dependency" describe?

4. The Unknowable describes which of the following situations?

5. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?

Short Essay Questions

1. Briefly describe the process of induction in the figure "Show me whom to desire"/Induction.

2. The Unknowable has to do with the lover's ability, or lack thereof, to know the other: what conclusion does the lover come to in this section?

3. "I am crazy"/Mad: How is the lover's madness metaphorical?

4. In Inexpressible Love/To Write, what does the narrator suggest when he says "I cannot write myself"?

5. Describe the functioning of the loquela in the section entitled The Loquela.

6. What kind of scenes does the lover image in Ideas of Solution/Outcomes?

7. Novel/Drama: Why does the form in which a love story is told matter?

8. Describe the relation between the informer, the lover, and the loved being in The Informer.

9. Describe the scenario in At Fault/Faults between the lover and the loved one at the train station.

10. How does the section Fade-Out connect the loved beings withdrawal with the Mother?

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