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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. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover can seek out a new love interest.
(b) The lover can take on a new identity.
(c) The lover retreats into the idea of love when threatened by injury or jealousy.
(d) The lover is never without the attentions of the beloved.

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

3. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?
(a) The nose of a German poet.
(b) A photograph of the author's mother.
(c) The slightly decayed nose of a disinterred corpse.
(d) A figure in a Flemish painting.

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

5. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
(a) Self-punishment and gentle retreat.
(b) Foreign travel.
(c) Complete rejection of society.
(d) Meditation.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. When does this desire affect the subject?

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