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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. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"
(a) The effects of a childhood loss that continues to affect his relationships.
(b) The pain of rejection that haunts him.
(c) The story of a mandarin and a courtesan.
(d) The tendency to hallucinate the other and recreate the sense of waiting even after the relationship is over.

2. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?
(a) I am not someone else.
(b) The other is mad as well.
(c) "I" is an other.
(d) Madness is an illness.

3. Which author does the quotation "And the night illuminated the night" come from?
(a) John of the Cross.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Plato.
(d) Freud.

4. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
(a) As random unrelated events.
(b) As hallucinations.
(c) As a kind of fate.
(d) As signs of love.

5. What topic does the figure I Love You discuss?
(a) The poetic meaning of "I love you."
(b) The meaning of love.
(c) The lover's desire to please the beloved.
(d) The act of saying "I love you," the repeated utterance.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following phrases describes the act of Reverberation?

2. What language does the word "atopos" come from?

3. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

4. What do a person's tears prove to him?

5. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?

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