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

2. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?
(a) The nature of trust.
(b) What it means to feel secure.
(c) The meaning of life.
(d) Himself and what it means to be "in love."

3. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?
(a) Compassion from the other.
(b) Sympathy from the other.
(c) A response, an interplay of meaning with the other.
(d) Understanding from the other.

4. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?
(a) Choosing between two alternatives: this, or that.
(b) Deciding when to leave the other.
(c) Solving a difficult social crisis.
(d) Finding a solution to a dispute.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

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

4. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

5. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

(see the answer key)

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