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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 through 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Plato.
(d) Meno.

2. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Embarrassment.
(b) Anger.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Boredom.

3. 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?
(a) Abstracts.
(b) Chapters.
(c) Figures.
(d) References.

4. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?
(a) To be overcome with emotion or to swoon.
(b) To fall into a deep sleep.
(c) To be embraced by one's lover.
(d) To lose oneself in a good story.

5. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?
(a) To the rejection of perfection by the lover.
(b) To the production of a counter-image of the loved object.
(c) To the missing tip of a nose, and nothing else.
(d) To a sewing procedure, which is a metaphor in the text.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?

2. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

3. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?

4. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?

5. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?

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