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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. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?
(a) When will my heartache go away?
(b) When will I find love?
(c) What will the world and the other do with my heart, my desire?
(d) When will my wit be valued as much as my heart?

2. According to this section in the text, what is the best reaction to the other's suffering?
(a) Detachment, delicacy, and compassion.
(b) Empathy, advice, and affection.
(c) Compassion, moral support, and physical contact.
(d) Sympathy, delicacy, and reassurance.

3. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) A desire to please.
(b) Self-doubt.
(c) Courage.
(d) A person whom one addresses.

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

5. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?
(a) The lover's attempt to circumscribe boredom.
(b) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pleasure.
(c) The lover's refusal to circumscribe pleasure.
(d) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?

2. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

3. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?

4. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?

5. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?

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