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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 called Fade-out, where does the other's fade-out reside?
(a) In the other's voice.
(b) In the lover's silence.
(c) In the other's appearance.
(d) In the lover's memory.

2. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?
(a) To the rejection of perfection by the lover.
(b) To the missing tip of a nose, and nothing else.
(c) To a sewing procedure, which is a metaphor in the text.
(d) To the production of a counter-image of the loved object.

3. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"
(a) The failure of the loved object to respond to words like "adorable."
(b) The failure of love to live up to expectations.
(c) The failure of language employed by the lover to adequately describe the loved object.
(d) The failure of the lover's desire when confronted which the actual adored object.

4. What is the duration of a discourse on love?
(a) One year.
(b) A decade or more.
(c) It is interminable.
(d) Five months.

5. In "Exuberance," which two literary characters does the author compare to discuss the "economy of pure expenditure" in love?
(a) Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.
(b) Werther and Albert from the novel Werther.
(c) The narrator and Charlus from the novel The Guermantes' Way.
(d) Werther and Charlotte from the novel Werther.

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?

2. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?

3. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?

4. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

5. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

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