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

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

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

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

5. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?
(a) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.
(b) The narrator writes a business letter instead of a love letter.
(c) The narrator describes burning his love letters.
(d) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?

2. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

3. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?

4. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?

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

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