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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 effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.
(b) It does not have any effect on language.
(c) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.
(d) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.

2. What is a popular name for ravishment, as stated in Ravishment?
(a) Charm.
(b) Infatuation.
(c) Love at first sight.
(d) Enamoration.

3. What kind of acts does the lover perform in The Last Leaf/Magic.
(a) Acts of infidelity.
(b) Meditations, contemplations, and silences.
(c) Acts of selfless love.
(d) Magic consultations, secret rites, and votive actions.

4. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?
(a) A play about a 19th-century society woman.
(b) One of Sigmund Freud's female patients.
(c) A book in which the delirious hero mistakes an image for the actual woman he loves.
(d) A goddess from classical Greek mythology.

5. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?
(a) He feels depressed.
(b) He feels creative.
(c) He feels himself to be atopos.
(d) He feels himself to be classified, like everyone else.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of solitude does the figure "No clergyman attended"/Alone discuss?

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

3. Which of the following describes the use of "thus" in the figure Thus.

4. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?

5. In "Show me whom to desire"/Induction, the narrator notes that there is no desire without _________________.

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