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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 slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Fragments of discourse.
(b) Literary musings.
(c) Figments of the imagination.
(d) Lists of terms.

2. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.
(b) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.
(c) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.

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

4. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?
(a) To the other (the one who is loved).
(b) To those friends who doubt the depth of his feelings.
(c) To the mother.
(d) To society.

5. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
(a) To the mother's absence.
(b) To the subject's first disappointment in love.
(c) To the father's absence.
(d) To the child's need for approval.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?

2. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"

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

4. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?

5. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?

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