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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 through 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of the book, in the section entitled, "How this book is structured," what is the name that the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) References.
(b) Abstracts.
(c) Chapters.
(d) Figures.

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

3. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Anger.

4. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(b) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(c) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(d) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.

5. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of belief in true love.
(b) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.
(c) The loss of financial security.
(d) The loss of someone to talk to.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?

2. When does this desire affect the subject?

3. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?

4. What language does the word "atopos" come from?

5. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

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