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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. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?
(a) He feels creative.
(b) He feels himself to be atopos.
(c) He feels depressed.
(d) He feels himself to be classified, like everyone else.
2. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.
(b) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.
(c) To Gide riding a train.
(d) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.
3. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?
(a) The emotional and the physical.
(b) Flesh and spirit.
(c) The imagined body and the actual body.
(d) The body proper such as the skin, eyes, and the voice.
4. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.
(b) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.
(c) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(d) The lover does not want to be a gossip.
5. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) I love you because you are absent.
(b) I adore you because you are fascinating.
(c) The adorable is what is adorable.
(d) The adorable is what is impossible.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
2. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?
3. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
4. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?
5. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?
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