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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. 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) Chapters.
(b) Abstracts.
(c) References.
(d) Figures.

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

3. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(b) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(c) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(d) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.

4. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?
(a) As needing his protection.
(b) As the perfect lover.
(c) As an imperfect lover.
(d) As unobtainable.

5. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
(a) Love as an expression of self-sacrifice.
(b) The lover's eventual rejection of love as a value.
(c) How the lover affirms love as a value against and despite its devaluation.
(d) How love makes the lover more rational.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?

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

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