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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. Select the outcome(s) with which the section Ideas of Solution/Outcomes is concerned.
(a) The possible outcome of a novel by Goethe.
(b) The possible outcomes of the amorous crisis.
(c) The possible outcomes of the other's illness.
(d) The possible outcome of a wager.

2. What is the source of the lover's distress in Gossip?
(a) Other people are gossiping about the loved one.
(b) He finds himself the subject of gossip.
(c) The lover catches the loved one gossiping about him.
(d) He is ashamed of his tendency to gossip.

3. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?
(a) Unclassifiable.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Untranslatable.
(d) Indolent.

4. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"
(a) The failure of the lover's desire when confronted which the actual adored object.
(b) The failure of the loved object to respond to words like "adorable."
(c) The failure of love to live up to expectations.
(d) The failure of language employed by the lover to adequately describe the loved object.

5. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?
(a) The other is unobtainable.
(b) The other is unfaithful.
(c) The other is a stereotype.
(d) The other is unique.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dual nature of the figure of Gradiva?

2. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?

3. What is the narrator's definition of the image in the section Images?

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

5. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?

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