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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. Match the term "loquela" with the correct phrase.
(a) "I know that you know that I know."
(b) "I fall in love again and again."
(c) "I doom myself to blackmail."
(d) "I keep swallowing and regurgitating my wound."

2. How does the informer wound the subject?
(a) He tells lies about the loved being.
(b) He sabotages the subjects relationship with the other.
(c) He competes for the loved beings affections.
(d) He provides commonplace information about the loved being.

3. What kind of acts does the lover perform in The Last Leaf/Magic.
(a) Meditations, contemplations, and silences.
(b) Magic consultations, secret rites, and votive actions.
(c) Acts of selfless love.
(d) Acts of infidelity.

4. According to this section in the text, what is the best reaction to the other's suffering?
(a) Sympathy, delicacy, and reassurance.
(b) Empathy, advice, and affection.
(c) Compassion, moral support, and physical contact.
(d) Detachment, delicacy, and compassion.

5. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"
(a) As a pretext for intimacy.
(b) As a tired metaphor for romance.
(c) As a gift-object and an organ of desire.
(d) As a symbol of fertility.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Novel/Drama," which of the following is true about the writing of the amorous subject's love story?

2. In the same section, the author notes that to write about love is to "confront the muck of language"; which of the following describes this problem?

3. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?

4. What does that composer claim regarding tears?

5. What is the dual nature of the figure of Gradiva?

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