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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 "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
(a) Through refusing to speak to friends about his condition.
(b) Through fasting, sexual abstinence, and total seclusion.
(c) Through long walks alone in the desert.
(d) Through appearance (short hair, dark glasses) and monk-like habits (serious study, rising early).

2. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?
(a) The need to stereotype others.
(b) The lover's desire to fit into a particular life structure.
(c) The desire to escape social constraints and labels.
(d) The traveler's desire to keep moving.

3. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?
(a) To fall into a deep sleep.
(b) To lose oneself in a good story.
(c) To be overcome with emotion or to swoon.
(d) To be embraced by one's lover.

4. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
(a) The lover's eventual rejection of love as a value.
(b) Love as an expression of self-sacrifice.
(c) How love makes the lover more rational.
(d) How the lover affirms love as a value against and despite its devaluation.

5. In "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?
(a) The amorous subject's happiness is increased by random events.
(b) The amorous subject's happiness is destroyed by random events.
(c) The amorous subject is ambivalent about random events.
(d) The amorous subject is oblivious to random events.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"

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

3. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?

4. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?

5. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?

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