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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 38 through 74.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.
(b) It does not have any effect on language.
(c) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.
(d) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.

2. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?
(a) Compassion from the other.
(b) A response, an interplay of meaning with the other.
(c) Understanding from the other.
(d) Sympathy from the other.

3. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) A person whom one addresses.
(b) Self-doubt.
(c) A desire to please.
(d) Courage.

4. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?
(a) As an either/or situation: a matter of success or failure, victory or defeat.
(b) As a compromise that must be endured for the sake of society.
(c) As the ultimate goal for every single person.
(d) As impossible, and therefore more desirable.

5. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of belief in true love.
(b) The loss of someone to talk to.
(c) The loss of financial security.
(d) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?

3. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

4. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?

5. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?

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