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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. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
(a) The lover's eventual rejection of love as a value.
(b) Love as an expression of self-sacrifice.
(c) How love makes the lover more rational.
(d) How the lover affirms love as a value against and despite its devaluation.

2. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Dionysus.
(c) Orpheus.
(d) Apollo.

3. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.
(b) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.
(c) The lover's desire annuls the other.
(d) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.

4. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?
(a) An increasing apathy regarding the other's absence.
(b) A growing anxiety and loss of all sense of proportion while waiting for the other.
(c) Making lists of the other's faults while waiting for him.
(d) A growing fear of the death of the beloved during his absence.

5. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover can take on a new identity.
(b) The lover retreats into the idea of love when threatened by injury or jealousy.
(c) The lover can seek out a new love interest.
(d) The lover is never without the attentions of the beloved.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?

2. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?

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

4. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?

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

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