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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 does that composer claim regarding tears?
(a) One tear will say more than words.
(b) Tears are for the weak and unmanly.
(c) Poetry is more eloquent than tears.
(d) Never let your lover see you cry.

2. What is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"
(a) "I love you, too. "
(b) Silence.
(c) "Really?"
(d) "So do I."

3. What observation is made about the amorous subject in the section In Praise of Tears/Crying?
(a) He dislikes it when the other cries.
(b) He has a propensity for tears.
(c) He is emotionally immature.
(d) He represses his tears.

4. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover refer to when he says, "I am odious?"
(a) His feeling s of remorse.
(b) His controlling behavior and lack of generosity towards the other.
(c) The tendency towards self-indulgence.
(d) His cowardice.

5. What does the "scenography of waiting" refer to?
(a) A book written by Schönberg that deals with waiting.
(b) A French opera.
(c) A traumatic scene from the narrator's childhood that he rehearses mentally.
(d) A drama in which the narrator goes through the different stages of waiting and their associated actions and emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the duration of a discourse on love?

2. What do the clouds symbolize in the section by the same name?

3. To which ribbon does the title of the section The Ribbon/Objects refer?

4. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

5. What does the young Freud say to his fiancée in The Love Letter?

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