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

2. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.
(b) The lover's desire annuls the other.
(c) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.
(d) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.

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

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

5. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?
(a) Jealousy and fear of injury and abandonment.
(b) Shame in front of others.
(c) Sadness and despondency.
(d) Impatience and irritability.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?

4. 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?

5. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?

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