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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. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.
(b) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(c) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.
(d) The lover does not want to be a gossip.

2. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?
(a) The amorous subject and his mother.
(b) The object of love and the lover's rival.
(c) The amorous subject and the object of love.
(d) The amorous subject and his rival.

3. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Boredom.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Anger.

4. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Foreign travel.
(c) Complete rejection of society.
(d) Self-punishment and gentle retreat.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does this desire affect the subject?

2. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?

3. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"

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

5. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?

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