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

2. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?
(a) What will the world and the other do with my heart, my desire?
(b) When will I find love?
(c) When will my wit be valued as much as my heart?
(d) When will my heartache go away?

3. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?
(a) The Man.
(b) The mother.
(c) The father.
(d) The Woman.

4. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of belief in true love.
(b) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.
(c) The loss of financial security.
(d) The loss of someone to talk to.

5. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?
(a) Angry despair (rage) and hopeless despair (depression).
(b) Gentle despair (active resignation) and violent despair (total destruction).
(c) Physical despair and mental despair.
(d) Active despair and passive despair.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?

2. What does the "scenography of waiting" refer to?

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

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

5. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?

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