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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. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?
(a) There is a sense of claustrophobia on the part of the lover.
(b) The lover suffers from seeing the other diminished and excluded from the sentiment he or she provoked.
(c) The lover becomes tired of constantly seeking new partners.
(d) The lover has to fight for autonomy and a sense of self.

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

3. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"
(a) A process whereby the lover's absence is transformed into an abandonment.
(b) The role of absence in film narratives.
(c) The lover's lack of concern for the absent love object.
(d) The inner motivations for leaving a relationship.

4. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?
(a) The narrator describes burning his love letters.
(b) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.
(c) The narrator writes a business letter instead of a love letter.
(d) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.

5. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?
(a) The lover remains unaffected.
(b) The lover creates meaning from the contact.
(c) The lover becomes shy and nervous.
(d) The lover feels excessive distress.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?

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

4. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?

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

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