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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 language does the word "atopos" come from?
(a) Hebrew.
(b) Greek.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Latin.

2. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?
(a) As a threat to the lover's happiness.
(b) As irrelevant compared to the object of love.
(c) As not having any place in a private world in which the lover is king.
(d) As having a particular place in a system from which the lover is excluded.

3. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?
(a) A growing anxiety and loss of all sense of proportion while waiting for the other.
(b) A growing fear of the death of the beloved during his absence.
(c) Making lists of the other's faults while waiting for him.
(d) An increasing apathy regarding the other's absence.

4. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Embarrassment.
(b) Anger.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Boredom.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?

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

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

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