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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 lover's personal friendships.
(b) The lover's desire annuls the other.
(c) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.
(d) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.

2. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?
(a) The other is unique.
(b) The other is a stereotype.
(c) The other is unfaithful.
(d) The other is unobtainable.

3. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?
(a) The Man.
(b) The mother.
(c) The father.
(d) The Woman.

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

5. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?
(a) He feels himself to be atopos.
(b) He feels depressed.
(c) He feels creative.
(d) He feels himself to be classified, like everyone else.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?

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

4. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

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

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