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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'

2. In "Dedication," what effect can writing, as a form of amorous dedication, have on the other?

3. What does the lover's condition cause him to do in "We are our own demons?"

4. What is the definition of languor offered in the section Love's Languor?

5. In Clouds, why is Herr Schmidt upset?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the lover's process of identification, as seen in the character Werther, in the section entitled Identifications.

2. In Domnei/Dependency, what does the lover mean when he says: "I am twice subject?"

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

4. In Love's Languor/Languor, how is the Satyr contrasted with languor?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What object does the lover compare himself to in This can't go on/Unbearable?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Jealousy, the author says that "Werther's jealousy derives from Images" (pg. 144.) Likewise, in Images (pg. 132), the author describes how Werther is affected by a particular scene involving Charlotte. The image clearly has a powerful effect on the lover. Why?

- What does the image represent?

- How does the lover interpret various images and what do they become for him?

- How does the image inform desire? (pg. 145.)

- What is the nature of the jealousy that images provoke?

Essay Topic 2

The other's absence is an important theme in the text. It surfaces in figures such as Absence, Anxiety, and Waiting. Discuss how the lover defines himself through absence:

- What does it mean that amorous absence functions in a single direction? (Absence, pg. 13)

- Who carries out the discourse of absence historically and what does this mean for the lover?

- What position does the other occupy in this dynamic?

- How does the other's absence affect the lover? (Anxiety, pg. 29)

- In what way is the absent other associated with truth? (Waiting, pg. 37)

Essay Topic 3

In Induction (pg. 136), how does the author describe the process whereby we come to love another?

- Define the term "induction."

- How does induction work in the novel Werther?

- Describe the process of induction in culture: from where do we receive images of what is desirable?

- Can you conclude from this section that love is original?

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