A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Quiz | Two Week Quiz A

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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. Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/Habiliment refers, in general, to which kind of clothing?
(a) That which the lover borrows from the loved being.
(b) That worn by the subject during the amorous encounter or with the intention to seduce.
(c) The clothes worn by the object of love at their first meeting.
(d) What the subject hopes to see the object of love wear.

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

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

4. What causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?
(a) The object of desire rejects his offering of oranges.
(b) The object of desire receives his gift and refuses to share it.
(c) The object of desire is oblivious to his gift.
(d) The object of desire shares the oranges he gave her with a neighbor.

5. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(b) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(c) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(d) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

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

4. What clothing is Werther wearing when he first dances with Charlotte?

5. In "Inexpressible Love," what two powerful myths does the author mention?

(see the answer key)

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