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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 lover seek to "read" on the other's body?
(a) Evidence of imperfection.
(b) Unexpressed thoughts.
(c) The cause of his desire.
(d) The meaning of beauty.

2. Which one of the following authors does Barthes cite in this section on the demonic life of a lover?
(a) Freud.
(b) Proust.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Nietzsche.

3. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
(a) The potential for rejection.
(b) The inability to recover the self when the lover is absent.
(c) The lover's fear of intimacy.
(d) The other's loss of memory.

4. How does Werther fall in love with Charlotte in the section "Show me whom to desire/Induction?"
(a) He falls for her without ever seeing or hearing about her before.
(b) He meets her at a friend's wedding and is smitten.
(c) At first he dislikes her then he changes his mind.
(d) Her beauty is pointed out to him before he sees her, then he falls for her.

5. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?
(a) As the perfect lover.
(b) As an imperfect lover.
(c) As unobtainable.
(d) As needing his protection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following scenarios is described in No Answer/Silence?

2. What does the lover remember in "E lucevan le stelle'/Remembrance?

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

4. How is the sentimental subject perceived by society?

5. What topic does the figure I Love You discuss?

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