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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. The figure Union discusses which of the following ideas?
(a) Marriage.
(b) Total union with the loved being.
(c) Dissolving unhappy unions.
(d) The impossibility of true union.

2. What does the young Freud say to his fiancée in The Love Letter?
(a) I wish you would visit instead of writing.
(b) We must be cautious with our correspondence.
(c) I am tired of your long letters.
(d) I shall stop writing you if you do not write me back.

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

4. What is the enemy of "thus.," according to the author?
(a) Familiarity.
(b) Knowledge.
(c) Desire.
(d) Gossip.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

2. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?

3. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

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

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

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