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

2. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
(a) As a kind of fate.
(b) As hallucinations.
(c) As signs of love.
(d) As random unrelated events.

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

4. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?
(a) The nose of a German poet.
(b) The slightly decayed nose of a disinterred corpse.
(c) A figure in a Flemish painting.
(d) A photograph of the author's mother.

5. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?
(a) He wants to show off his learning to his friends.
(b) He wants to display his askesis as something caused by the other so that person will yield.
(c) He wants to convince society that he is worthy of love.
(d) He wants to make his mother feel guilty.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?

3. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"

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

5. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?

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