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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. Why is the lover attached to the object?
(a) It is seen as an extension of the loved one's body.
(b) It smells like the other's perfume.
(c) It is nostalgic.
(d) Because he is irrational.

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

3. 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?
(a) Language is degraded and common.
(b) Language is paradoxically both too much and not enough.
(c) Language is becomes indecipherable.
(d) Language has too many meanings and cannot be controlled.

4. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?
(a) To the loved one and to the loved one's dependency.
(b) To the loved one and to that person's parents.
(c) To the opinions of society and to the opinions of the other.
(d) To the other's dependency and to that of the other's children.

5. What is the "ordeal" described in the section called Fade-out.
(a) The lover's favorite jeans fade.
(b) For no apparent reason the loved being withdraws from all contact.
(c) The loved being's physical beauty begins to fade.
(d) The loved being's mother dies.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?

2. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?

3. In "Show me whom to desire"/Induction, the narrator notes that there is no desire without _________________.

4. How does Werther fall in love with Charlotte in the section "Show me whom to desire/Induction?"

5. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?

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