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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. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?
(a) Innocence.
(b) Secrecy.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Indolence.

2. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"
(a) The failure of the loved object to respond to words like "adorable."
(b) The failure of the lover's desire when confronted which the actual adored object.
(c) The failure of language employed by the lover to adequately describe the loved object.
(d) The failure of love to live up to expectations.

3. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?
(a) To lose oneself in a good story.
(b) To be overcome with emotion or to swoon.
(c) To be embraced by one's lover.
(d) To fall into a deep sleep.

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

5. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.
(b) To Gide riding a train.
(c) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.
(d) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?

2. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?

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

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

5. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

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