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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 "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?
(a) Impatience and irritability.
(b) Jealousy and fear of injury and abandonment.
(c) Sadness and despondency.
(d) Shame in front of others.

2. To whom does the following quote belong,"I therefore have decked myself out in finery so that I might be in the company of a fine young man?"
(a) Proust.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Gradiva.

3. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Anger.
(c) Boredom.
(d) Embarrassment.

4. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) Courage.
(b) Self-doubt.
(c) A desire to please.
(d) A person whom one addresses.

5. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?
(a) The narrator describes burning his love letters.
(b) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.
(c) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.
(d) The narrator writes a business letter instead of a love letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?

2. Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/Habiliment refers, in general, to which kind of clothing?

3. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?

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

5. In Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/habiliment, what specifically does the "blue coat and yellow vest" refer to?

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