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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 is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?
(a) When will my wit be valued as much as my heart?
(b) When will my heartache go away?
(c) What will the world and the other do with my heart, my desire?
(d) When will I find love?

2. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?
(a) Novalis.
(b) Sade.
(c) Ruysbroek.
(d) Nietzsche.

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

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

5. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) The adorable is what is impossible.
(b) The adorable is what is adorable.
(c) I adore you because you are fascinating.
(d) I love you because you are absent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?

2. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?

3. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?

4. In the section called "Talking," how does the lover's discourse change when the amorous subject speaks about love?

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

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