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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 the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?
(a) The nature of trust.
(b) The meaning of life.
(c) Himself and what it means to be "in love."
(d) What it means to feel secure.

2. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
(a) To the father's absence.
(b) To the subject's first disappointment in love.
(c) To the mother's absence.
(d) To the child's need for approval.

3. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover becomes tired of constantly seeking new partners.
(b) The lover suffers from seeing the other diminished and excluded from the sentiment he or she provoked.
(c) The lover has to fight for autonomy and a sense of self.
(d) There is a sense of claustrophobia on the part of the lover.

4. What is the dual nature of the figure of Gradiva?
(a) Love and hate.
(b) Salvation and torment.
(c) Union and separation.
(d) Knowledge and ignorance.

5. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Literary musings.
(b) Lists of terms.
(c) Fragments of discourse.
(d) Figments of the imagination.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the source of the embarrassment experienced by parties in a love triangle in "Looking embarrassed?"

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?"

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

4. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?

5. 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?

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