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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. Which of the following phrases describes the informer in the section called The Informer?
(a) A friendly figure who wounds the subject.
(b) An enemy who tries to destroy the subject.
(c) A rival.
(d) A malicious gossip.

2. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"
(a) Vulnerable and sensitive to ridicule.
(b) Detached.
(c) Prone to negativity.
(d) Aggressive.

3. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover does not want to be a gossip.
(b) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(c) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.
(d) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.

4. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?
(a) Solving a difficult social crisis.
(b) Finding a solution to a dispute.
(c) Choosing between two alternatives: this, or that.
(d) Deciding when to leave the other.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?

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. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?

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

5. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover refer to when he says, "I am odious?"

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