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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. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?
(a) To someone reading a newspaper.
(b) To a scientist looking through a microscope.
(c) To children who disassemble a clock to see what time is.
(d) To a prisoner looking out the window.

2. In "Special Days"/Festivity, what analogy is used to describe the lover's meeting with the loved being?
(a) The child at a circus.
(b) The prisoner released from captivity.
(c) The child laughing with joy at the sight of the mother.
(d) A family on a picnic.

3. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?
(a) Novalis.
(b) Ruysbroek.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Sade.

4. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?
(a) An increasing apathy regarding the other's absence.
(b) Making lists of the other's faults while waiting for him.
(c) A growing fear of the death of the beloved during his absence.
(d) A growing anxiety and loss of all sense of proportion while waiting for the other.

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?"
(a) The story of a mandarin and a courtesan.
(b) The tendency to hallucinate the other and recreate the sense of waiting even after the relationship is over.
(c) The pain of rejection that haunts him.
(d) The effects of a childhood loss that continues to affect his relationships.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Unknowable describes which of the following situations?

2. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?

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

4. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?

5. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?

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