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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. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Embarrassment.
(b) Anxiety.
(c) Anger.
(d) Boredom.
2. 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) Figures.
(b) References.
(c) Chapters.
(d) Abstracts.
3. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?
(a) As needing his protection.
(b) As an imperfect lover.
(c) As unobtainable.
(d) As the perfect lover.
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 love to live up to expectations.
(c) The failure of language employed by the lover to adequately describe the loved object.
(d) The failure of the loved object to respond to words like "adorable."
5. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
(a) Through long walks alone in the desert.
(b) Through appearance (short hair, dark glasses) and monk-like habits (serious study, rising early).
(c) Through refusing to speak to friends about his condition.
(d) Through fasting, sexual abstinence, and total seclusion.
Short Answer Questions
1. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?
2. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?
3. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
4. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
5. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
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