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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 remember in "E lucevan le stelle'/Remembrance?
(a) An amorous scene from the past.
(b) The first disagreement with the loved being.
(c) Spending time with his mother.
(d) The first ravishment.

2. What causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?
(a) The object of desire shares the oranges he gave her with a neighbor.
(b) The object of desire receives his gift and refuses to share it.
(c) The object of desire is oblivious to his gift.
(d) The object of desire rejects his offering of oranges.

3. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"
(a) As a symbol of fertility.
(b) As a gift-object and an organ of desire.
(c) As a tired metaphor for romance.
(d) As a pretext for intimacy.

4. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?
(a) Shame in front of others.
(b) Impatience and irritability.
(c) Jealousy and fear of injury and abandonment.
(d) Sadness and despondency.

5. Making Scenes/Scene describes which of the following episodes between Werther and Charlotte.
(a) An argument that arises when she tells him to visit less frequently.
(b) A fight between Werther,Charlotte, and Charlotte's husband.
(c) Charlotte consoles Werther who is crying.
(d) Werther sees Charlotte with a rival and accosts him.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Ideas of Suicide, what is Gide's reaction to Werther's death?

2. At the beginning of the book, in the section entitled, "How this book is structured," what is the name that the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

3. What does the young Freud say to his fiancée in The Love Letter?

4. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?

5. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?

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