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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. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?
(a) The lover's language becomes expansive and creative.
(b) The lover seeks to escape the constraints of language.
(c) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.
(d) Language becomes irrelevant.

2. When does this desire affect the subject?
(a) When the subject is irritated.
(b) When the subject is in a state of raw panic.
(c) When the subject is in a state of despair or fulfillment.
(d) When the subject is bored.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?

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

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

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