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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. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?
(a) A forbidden pleasure.
(b) A lifelong pleasure.
(c) A lively pleasure.
(d) A subtle pleasure.

2. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?
(a) To a scientist looking through a microscope.
(b) To children who disassemble a clock to see what time is.
(c) To a prisoner looking out the window.
(d) To someone reading a newspaper.

3. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(b) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(c) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(d) The opposite of what it appears to mean.

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

5. What is the duration of a discourse on love?
(a) Five months.
(b) A decade or more.
(c) It is interminable.
(d) One year.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?

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

4. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

5. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?

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