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

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

3. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?
(a) The lover's language becomes expansive and creative.
(b) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.
(c) Language becomes irrelevant.
(d) The lover seeks to escape the constraints of language.

4. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Meno.

5. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?
(a) The father.
(b) The Woman.
(c) The Man.
(d) The mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?

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

3. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?

4. What is the "ordeal" described in the section called Fade-out.

5. In The Orange/Irksome, an episode involving oranges from the novel Werther is used to describe which of the following feelings?

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