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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 183 through 234.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator describe the feeling of ravishment?
(a) A fear of losing control.
(b) A profound curiosity
(c) A kind of hypnosis; the lover is stunned.
(d) A deeply distressing pain.

2. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.
(b) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.
(c) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.
(d) To Gide riding a train.

3. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
(a) How love makes the lover more rational.
(b) The lover's eventual rejection of love as a value.
(c) Love as an expression of self-sacrifice.
(d) How the lover affirms love as a value against and despite its devaluation.

4. What do the clouds symbolize in the section by the same name?
(a) The other's silence.
(b) A sense of danger.
(c) The lover's loss of hope.
(d) The lover's darkening mood.

5. "In the loving calm of your arms" describes the embrace of total union between lovers. What contradiction does the lover experience?
(a) The lover is neither completely awake or asleep.
(b) The lover is both mother and father.
(c) The lover feels both male and female.
(d) The lover is both child and adult.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lover remember in "E lucevan le stelle'/Remembrance?

2. To which period in the love relationship does the figure "How blue the sky was"/Encounter refer?

3. What happens to desire when the lover tries to resist the will to possess?

4. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

5. Union evokes which of the following authors and theories?

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