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

2. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?
(a) Finding a solution to a dispute.
(b) Deciding when to leave the other.
(c) Choosing between two alternatives: this, or that.
(d) Solving a difficult social crisis.

3. What does the lover give the other when he offers a gift?
(a) Something useless and impractical.
(b) An expensive token of affection.
(c) Something he has touched and invested with emotion.
(d) A souvenir of happier times.

4. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?
(a) Compassion from the other.
(b) Sympathy from the other.
(c) A response, an interplay of meaning with the other.
(d) Understanding from the other.

5. In "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?
(a) The amorous subject is ambivalent about random events.
(b) The amorous subject is oblivious to random events.
(c) The amorous subject's happiness is increased by random events.
(d) The amorous subject's happiness is destroyed by random events.

Short Answer Questions

1. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"

2. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?

3. According to this section in the text, what is the best reaction to the other's suffering?

4. Which one of the following authors does Barthes cite in this section on the demonic life of a lover?

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

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