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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. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?
(a) Novalis.
(b) Ruysbroek.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Sade.

2. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?
(a) As the ultimate goal for every single person.
(b) As a compromise that must be endured for the sake of society.
(c) As an either/or situation: a matter of success or failure, victory or defeat.
(d) As impossible, and therefore more desirable.

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

4. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?
(a) To the other (the one who is loved).
(b) To those friends who doubt the depth of his feelings.
(c) To society.
(d) To the mother.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?

2. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

3. In the section called "Talking," how does the lover's discourse change when the amorous subject speaks about love?

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

5. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?

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