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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. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?
(a) Unclassifiable.
(b) Untranslatable.
(c) Indolent.
(d) Stereotype.

2. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.
(b) The lover's desire annuls the other.
(c) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.
(d) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.

3. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?
(a) The other is unique.
(b) The other is unobtainable.
(c) The other is a stereotype.
(d) The other is unfaithful.

4. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?
(a) Impatience and irritability.
(b) Jealousy and fear of injury and abandonment.
(c) Sadness and despondency.
(d) Shame in front of others.

5. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of belief in true love.
(b) The loss of financial security.
(c) The loss of someone to talk to.
(d) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.

Short Answer Questions

1. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?

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

3. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

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

5. What language does the word "atopos" come from?

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