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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 kind of acts does the lover perform in The Last Leaf/Magic.
(a) Meditations, contemplations, and silences.
(b) Magic consultations, secret rites, and votive actions.
(c) Acts of selfless love.
(d) Acts of infidelity.
2. To which ribbon does the title of the section The Ribbon/Objects refer?
(a) Charlotte's ribbon, which Werther forms an attachment to.
(b) A ribbon that held together a packet of love letters.
(c) The narrator's mother's ribbon.
(d) The ribbon of a dead lover.
3. What is the definition of languor offered in the section Love's Languor?
(a) A feeling of drowsiness after an evening with the beloved.
(b) A continuous state of amorous desire without the will to possess.
(c) A feeling of pleasurable melancholy.
(d) A feeling of gentle laziness.
4. What does the young Freud say to his fiancée in The Love Letter?
(a) We must be cautious with our correspondence.
(b) I wish you would visit instead of writing.
(c) I am tired of your long letters.
(d) I shall stop writing you if you do not write me back.
5. In Exiled from the Image-repertoire/Exile, the idea of exile can be associated with which of the following things?
(a) Amorous mourning; abandoning the image of the other.
(b) Mourning the death on a loved one.
(c) Leaving behind old images of the self.
(d) Leaving one's country of birth.
Short Answer Questions
1. What do the clouds symbolize in the section by the same name?
2. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover's discourse do to the other?
3. Which famous composer does the author quote in the section on crying?
4. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?
5. What observation is made about the amorous subject in the section In Praise of Tears/Crying?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Love's Languor/Languor, how is the Satyr contrasted with languor?
2. In The Dedication, how does the act of giving follow "the family model"?
3. Describe the relation between the informer, the lover, and the loved being in The Informer.
4. "I am crazy"/Mad: How is the lover's madness metaphorical?
5. 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?
6. "Looking embarrassed"/Embarrassment: Describe the scene of embarrassment from Werther cited in this section.
7. In Domnei/Dependency, what does the lover mean when he says: "I am twice subject?"
8. Briefly describe the process of induction in the figure "Show me whom to desire"/Induction.
9. List some of the scenarios described by the narrator to illustrate the sense of disreality in The World Thunderstruck/Disreality.
10. What object does the lover compare himself to in This can't go on/Unbearable?
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