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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 75 through 128.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?
(a) The lover reveals his lack of respect for the other.
(b) The lover does not bother to ask the other how he feels.
(c) The other reveals a lot about himself by being secretive.
(d) The other must know that the lover does not want to show his feelings.

2. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
(a) Through appearance (short hair, dark glasses) and monk-like habits (serious study, rising early).
(b) Through fasting, sexual abstinence, and total seclusion.
(c) Through long walks alone in the desert.
(d) Through refusing to speak to friends about his condition.

3. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?
(a) A goddess from classical Greek mythology.
(b) One of Sigmund Freud's female patients.
(c) A play about a 19th-century society woman.
(d) A book in which the delirious hero mistakes an image for the actual woman he loves.

4. Which of the following describes the lover's madness in "I am crazy"/mad?
(a) Poetic.
(b) Unconscious.
(c) Metaphorical.
(d) Supernatural.

5. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) Intelligence.
(c) Innocence.
(d) Indolence.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following best describes the lover's state in "We are our own demons?"

2. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?

3. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

4. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?

5. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?

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