A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Quiz | Four Week Quiz B

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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. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Fragments of discourse.
(b) Literary musings.
(c) Figments of the imagination.
(d) Lists of terms.

2. What does the lover decide about the expression of his love to the other?
(a) He must be more poetic.
(b) He must say "I love you" with more frequency.
(c) He must not let the words "I love you" pass his lips.
(d) He cannot rely on the usual clichés to express his deeper feelings.

3. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?
(a) The other is a stereotype.
(b) The other is unique.
(c) The other is unobtainable.
(d) The other is unfaithful.

4. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.
(b) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.
(c) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.
(d) It does not have any effect on language.

5. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?
(a) Ruysbroek.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Sade.
(d) Novalis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image does the author evoke to represent the "exuberance" that results from constantly expending love?

2. Match the term "loquela" with the correct phrase.

3. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?

4. Which of the following describes the use of "thus" in the figure Thus.

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

(see the answer key)

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