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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 is the narrator's definition of the image in the section Images?
(a) That from which I am excluded.
(b) The lover's fantasy of the beloved.
(c) A visual feast.
(d) A romantic painting.

2. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?
(a) Making lists of the other's faults while waiting for him.
(b) An increasing apathy regarding the other's absence.
(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.

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

4. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
(a) As random unrelated events.
(b) As signs of love.
(c) As a kind of fate.
(d) As hallucinations.

5. What do a person's tears prove to him?
(a) That his love is real.
(b) That he must cultivate poetry.
(c) That he is weak.
(d) That he has lost touch with reality.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?

2. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"

3. In the section called Fade-out, where does the other's fade-out reside?

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

5. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?

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