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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 38 through 74.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?
(a) He feels himself to be classified, like everyone else.
(b) He feels depressed.
(c) He feels creative.
(d) He feels himself to be atopos.

2. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.
(b) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.
(c) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.

3. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) Self-doubt.
(b) A person whom one addresses.
(c) Courage.
(d) A desire to please.

4. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?
(a) The amorous subject and his mother.
(b) The amorous subject and his rival.
(c) The object of love and the lover's rival.
(d) The amorous subject and the object of love.

5. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?
(a) The lover does not bother to ask the other how he feels.
(b) The other reveals a lot about himself by being secretive.
(c) The lover reveals his lack of respect for the other.
(d) The other must know that the lover does not want to show his feelings.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?

2. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?

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

4. When does this desire affect the subject?

5. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?

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