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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. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?
(a) As impossible, and therefore more desirable.
(b) As an either/or situation: a matter of success or failure, victory or defeat.
(c) As the ultimate goal for every single person.
(d) As a compromise that must be endured for the sake of society.

2. 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.

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

4. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Ruysbroek.
(c) Novalis.
(d) Sade.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does this desire affect the subject?

2. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

3. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?

4. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?

5. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?

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