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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 183 through 234.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?
(a) The lover reveals his lack of respect for the other.
(b) The other reveals a lot about himself by being secretive.
(c) The other must know that the lover does not want to show his feelings.
(d) The lover does not bother to ask the other how he feels.

2. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
(a) How the lover affirms love as a value against and despite its devaluation.
(b) The lover's eventual rejection of love as a value.
(c) How love makes the lover more rational.
(d) Love as an expression of self-sacrifice.

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

4. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(b) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(c) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(d) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.

5. In "Show me whom to desire"/Induction, the narrator notes that there is no desire without _________________.
(a) Confusion.
(b) Intrigue.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?

2. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?

3. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?

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

5. What is a popular name for ravishment, as stated in Ravishment?

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