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

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

3. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.
(b) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.
(c) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.

4. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Plato.
(b) Meno.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Socrates.

5. What is the duration of a discourse on love?
(a) A decade or more.
(b) One year.
(c) Five months.
(d) It is interminable.

Short Answer Questions

1. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?

2. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?

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

4. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?

5. In "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?

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