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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 come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
(a) As a kind of fate.
(b) As random unrelated events.
(c) As hallucinations.
(d) As signs of love.

2. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Figments of the imagination.
(b) Lists of terms.
(c) Literary musings.
(d) Fragments of discourse.

3. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(b) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.
(c) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.

4. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?
(a) To be overcome with emotion or to swoon.
(b) To be embraced by one's lover.
(c) To lose oneself in a good story.
(d) To fall into a deep sleep.

5. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?
(a) The cause of his desire.
(b) Unexpressed thoughts.
(c) The meaning of beauty.
(d) Evidence of imperfection.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to this section in the text, what is the best reaction to the other's suffering?

4. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

5. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

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