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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. What is the best form in which to tell the story of love?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Personal letters.
(c) Ancient, declamatory drama.
(d) The novel.

2. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
(a) The other's loss of memory.
(b) The inability to recover the self when the lover is absent.
(c) The potential for rejection.
(d) The lover's fear of intimacy.

3. What do a person's tears prove to him?
(a) That he is weak.
(b) That he must cultivate poetry.
(c) That his love is real.
(d) That he has lost touch with reality.

4. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?
(a) The lover feels excessive distress.
(b) The lover becomes shy and nervous.
(c) The lover remains unaffected.
(d) The lover creates meaning from the contact.

5. Which famous composer does the author quote in the section on crying?
(a) Satie.
(b) Bach.
(c) Shubert.
(d) Verdi.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following characterizes the figure "night" in the section "And the night illuminated the night"/Night?

2. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what gets characterized as obscene in contemporary society?

3. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"

4. In "Inexpressible Love," what two powerful myths does the author mention?

5. Select the outcome(s) with which the section Ideas of Solution/Outcomes is concerned.

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