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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. How is the sentimental subject perceived by society?
(a) As worthy of admiration.
(b) As worthy of sympathy.
(c) As irritating.
(d) As stupid, unseemly, and laughable.

2. How does the narrator describe the feeling of ravishment?
(a) A kind of hypnosis; the lover is stunned.
(b) A fear of losing control.
(c) A profound curiosity
(d) A deeply distressing pain.

3. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?
(a) That of the lover and that of the mundane world.
(b) The city and nature.
(c) The familiar and the foreign.
(d) That of the theater and that of the mundane world.

4. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?
(a) A forbidden pleasure.
(b) A lifelong pleasure.
(c) A subtle pleasure.
(d) A lively pleasure.

5. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?
(a) Flesh and spirit.
(b) The body proper such as the skin, eyes, and the voice.
(c) The imagined body and the actual body.
(d) The emotional and the physical.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?

2. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?

3. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

4. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?

5. What is the enemy of "thus.," according to the author?

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