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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. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?
(a) Self-actualization that bypasses the need for the other.
(b) The will to complete fulfillment in love that exceeds language.
(c) Feelings of sadness over the impossibility of fulfillment.
(d) Fulfilling one's childhood dreams.

2. In "Dedication," what effect can writing, as a form of amorous dedication, have on the other?
(a) It can make the other vain.
(b) It can smother the other.
(c) It can leave the other cold.
(d) It can inspire tenderness.

3. What kind of scene is discussed in the figure Making Scenes/Scene?
(a) A public fight in a restaurant.
(b) An argument between the lover and his rival.
(c) A scene of mourning.
(d) A "conjugal" argument between lovers.

4. Which relationship dynamic does the section of the text entitled "Domnei" or "dependency" describe?
(a) The couple decides to discuss problems of dependency.
(b) Common belief always places the woman in the submissive role.
(c) The loved object is much too dependent on the amorous subject.
(d) The amorous subject is subjugated to the loved object.

5. What kind of acts does the lover perform in The Last Leaf/Magic.
(a) Meditations, contemplations, and silences.
(b) Acts of selfless love.
(c) Acts of infidelity.
(d) Magic consultations, secret rites, and votive actions.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"

2. In Regretted?, which of the following troubling things does Werther overhear?

3. Which of the following characterizes the figure "night" in the section "And the night illuminated the night"/Night?

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

5. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?

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