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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. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?
(a) As unlovable.
(b) As worthy.
(c) As tough and courageous.
(d) As both pathetic and admirable; child and adult.

2. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?
(a) I am not someone else.
(b) "I" is an other.
(c) The other is mad as well.
(d) Madness is an illness.

3. 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 creates meaning from the contact.
(c) The lover remains unaffected.
(d) The lover becomes shy and nervous.

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

5. In Jealousy, what does Werther's jealousy derive from, according to the author?
(a) From insecurity.
(b) From thoughts.
(c) From images.
(d) From lack of knowledge.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?

2. Which of the following describes the lover's madness in "I am crazy"/mad?

3. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?

4. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?

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

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