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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 that composer claim regarding tears?
(a) Poetry is more eloquent than tears.
(b) Tears are for the weak and unmanly.
(c) Never let your lover see you cry.
(d) One tear will say more than words.

2. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?
(a) He wants to show off his learning to his friends.
(b) He wants to make his mother feel guilty.
(c) He wants to display his askesis as something caused by the other so that person will yield.
(d) He wants to convince society that he is worthy of love.

3. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?
(a) With anyone who cannot find their ideal mate.
(b) With every character or person who occupies the same place in love as he does.
(c) With the oppressed.
(d) With images of death.

4. In Exiled from the Image-repertoire/Exile, the idea of exile can be associated with which of the following things?
(a) Leaving one's country of birth.
(b) Mourning the death on a loved one.
(c) Amorous mourning; abandoning the image of the other.
(d) Leaving behind old images of the self.

5. To whom does the following quote belong,"I therefore have decked myself out in finery so that I might be in the company of a fine young man?"
(a) Gradiva.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Proust.
(d) Goethe.

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

2. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?

3. What kind of acts does the lover perform in The Last Leaf/Magic.

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

5. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?

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