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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 same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of belief in true love.
(b) The loss of financial security.
(c) The loss of someone to talk to.
(d) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.

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

3. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what main subject does the author address?
(a) The lover derides the other's secretiveness.
(b) The lover disguises his distrust of the other.
(c) The lover wonders to what degree he should conceal the turbulence of his passions.
(d) The lover wonders whether he should declare his love.

4. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
(a) The potential for rejection.
(b) The inability to recover the self when the lover is absent.
(c) The lover's fear of intimacy.
(d) The other's loss of memory.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?

3. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?

4. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?

5. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?

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