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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. Which of the following assertions is made about scenes in the figure Making Scenes/Scene?
(a) Scenes are productive ways to resolve a conflict.
(b) Scenes prove that the other is consolable.
(c) Scenes leaves an indelible scar on its participants.
(d) No scene has meaning or moves toward enlightenment and transformation.
2. In Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/habiliment, what specifically does the "blue coat and yellow vest" refer to?
(a) To the narrator's favorite outfit.
(b) To the costume of travelers.
(c) To clothing worn by the other that becomes a fetish object.
(d) To clothing worn by the character Werther.
3. Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/Habiliment refers, in general, to which kind of clothing?
(a) The clothes worn by the object of love at their first meeting.
(b) That worn by the subject during the amorous encounter or with the intention to seduce.
(c) That which the lover borrows from the loved being.
(d) What the subject hopes to see the object of love wear.
4. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(b) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(c) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(d) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
5. What does the following phrase, "No clergyman attended," refer to?
(a) To the last sentence in Werther which closes the scene of his burial.
(b) To the title of a poem by Baudelaire.
(c) To a death scene in a novel by Zola.
(d) To a wedding scene in one of Proust's novels.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the lover realize about the other in this section?
2. In Ideas of Suicide, whose suicide is discussed?
3. To which period in the love relationship does the figure "How blue the sky was"/Encounter refer?
4. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?
5. What is the source of the embarrassment experienced by parties in a love triangle in "Looking embarrassed?"
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