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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 seeks to escape the constraints of language.
(b) The lover's language becomes expansive and creative.
(c) Language becomes irrelevant.
(d) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.

2. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(b) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.
(c) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.
(d) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.

3. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?
(a) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.
(b) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.
(c) The narrator describes burning his love letters.
(d) The narrator writes a business letter instead of a love letter.

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?
(a) Abstracts.
(b) Chapters.
(c) References.
(d) Figures.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?

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

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