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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. Which of the following best describes the lover's state in "We are our own demons?"
2. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"
3. Why is the lover attached to the object?
4. In "Special Days"/Festivity, what analogy is used to describe the lover's meeting with the loved being?
5. What do the clouds symbolize in the section by the same name?
Short Essay Questions
1. "Looking embarrassed"/Embarrassment: Describe the scene of embarrassment from Werther cited in this section.
2. What kind of scenes does the lover image in Ideas of Solution/Outcomes?
3. In Inexpressible Love/To Write, what does the narrator suggest when he says "I cannot write myself"?
4. Describe the type of jealousy displayed by Werther in the figure Jealousy.
5. In the section I Love You, what happens to the amorous subject when he finally here's the words "I love you" returned to him? Cite a couple examples.
6. In Domnei/Dependency, what does the lover mean when he says: "I am twice subject?"
7. Describe the lover's process of identification, as seen in the character Werther, in the section entitled Identifications.
8. Describe the functioning of the loquela in the section entitled The Loquela.
9. List some of the scenarios described by the narrator to illustrate the sense of disreality in The World Thunderstruck/Disreality.
10. Exuberance/Expenditure: Discuss the contrast the author makes between the characters Werther and Albert.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Askesis and Dark Glasses/To Hide, the lover's suffering becomes performative. He performs acts that point to his amorous state for the benefit of the other.
- How does the lover perform his suffering? What are the activities, rituals, or behaviors he adopts?
- What are the goals of these actions?
- Can the lover control the outcome, or effect, of these behaviors?
Essay Topic 2
"I love you" is a peculiar phrase because, as the author states in I-Love-You (pg. 147), it is the metaphor of nothing else: it only has meaning at the moment it is uttered. Analyze the author's argument in this section.
- How does he describe the utterance in linguistic terms, i.e. how does it fit into language?
- What are the various responses to this utterance, both acceptable and unacceptable to the lover's ears?
- How is I-love-you an "active force," and against what?
Essay Topic 3
Elaborate on the notion that the word "adorable" (Adorable, p. 18) represents a failure in language.
- Why, and on whose part, does this this failure occur?
- How does the lover view his desire and how does this affect his relationship to language?
- How does the term "adorable" function?
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