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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 75 through 128.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover does not want to be a gossip.
(b) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(c) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.
(d) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.

2. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) I love you because you are absent.
(b) I adore you because you are fascinating.
(c) The adorable is what is adorable.
(d) The adorable is what is impossible.

3. To what does the "ghost ship," in the section entitled The Ghost Ship/Errantry refer?
(a) The lover dreams of sailing the world with the object of desire.
(b) The errant lover wanders from love to love, believing in the quest for fulfillment.
(c) The lover becomes a ghost of his former self.
(d) The lover is haunted by terrible memories.

4. What is the duration of a discourse on love?
(a) Five months.
(b) One year.
(c) A decade or more.
(d) It is interminable.

5. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
(a) To the mother's absence.
(b) To the child's need for approval.
(c) To the subject's first disappointment in love.
(d) To the father's absence.

Short Answer Questions

1. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?

2. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?

3. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?

4. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

5. Which of the following describes the lover's madness in "I am crazy"/mad?

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