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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 is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Literary musings.
(b) Lists of terms.
(c) Fragments of discourse.
(d) Figments of the imagination.

2. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(b) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(c) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(d) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.

3. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover can take on a new identity.
(b) The lover can seek out a new love interest.
(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.

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

5. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Indolent.
(c) Unclassifiable.
(d) Untranslatable.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?

2. When does this desire affect the subject?

3. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?

4. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?

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

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