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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 38 through 74.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To Gide riding a train.
(b) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.
(c) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.
(d) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.

2. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?
(a) "You" becomes "he" or "she" or "one."
(b) "He" or "she" becomes "you."
(c) "One" becomes "I."
(d) "You" becomes "it."

3. In "What is to be done?" which of the following describes the behavior of the amorous subject?
(a) Awkwardly silent.
(b) Everything is over-interpreted and spontaneity becomes impossible.
(c) Self-indulgent with little concern for others' feelings.
(d) Needy.

4. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?
(a) As tough and courageous.
(b) As both pathetic and admirable; child and adult.
(c) As worthy.
(d) As unlovable.

5. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It does not have any effect on language.
(b) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.
(c) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.
(d) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the duration of a discourse on love?

2. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?

3. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?

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

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

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