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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 other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?
(a) The need to stereotype others.
(b) The desire to escape social constraints and labels.
(c) The traveler's desire to keep moving.
(d) The lover's desire to fit into a particular life structure.

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

3. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Dionysus.
(d) Apollo.

4. To what does the "ghost ship," in the section entitled The Ghost Ship/Errantry refer?
(a) The lover dreams of sailing the world with the object of desire.
(b) The errant lover wanders from love to love, believing in the quest for fulfillment.
(c) The lover becomes a ghost of his former self.
(d) The lover is haunted by terrible memories.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the young Freud say to his fiancée in The Love Letter?

2. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?

3. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?

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

5. What does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'

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