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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 129 through 182.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.
(b) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.
(c) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.
(d) The lover's desire annuls the other.

2. Which of the following characterizes the figure "night" in the section "And the night illuminated the night"/Night?
(a) The lover's favorite time of day.
(b) Metaphors of darkness that describe interior states of the lover.
(c) Total ignorance of the other.
(d) A sense of helplessness.

3. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?
(a) A play about a 19th-century society woman.
(b) A goddess from classical Greek mythology.
(c) One of Sigmund Freud's female patients.
(d) A book in which the delirious hero mistakes an image for the actual woman he loves.

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

5. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?
(a) To the rejection of perfection by the lover.
(b) To the missing tip of a nose, and nothing else.
(c) To a sewing procedure, which is a metaphor in the text.
(d) To the production of a counter-image of the loved object.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

2. In the section called "Talking," how does the lover's discourse change when the amorous subject speaks about love?

3. What does the author note about crying in the modern era?

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

5. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"

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