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

2. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?
(a) The nose of a German poet.
(b) A figure in a Flemish painting.
(c) A photograph of the author's mother.
(d) The slightly decayed nose of a disinterred corpse.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?

3. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?

4. At the beginning of the book, in the section entitled, "How this book is structured," what is the name that the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

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

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