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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. At the beginning of the book, in the section entitled, "How this book is structured," what is the name that the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) References.
(b) Chapters.
(c) Abstracts.
(d) Figures.

2. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?
(a) To the other (the one who is loved).
(b) To society.
(c) To the mother.
(d) To those friends who doubt the depth of his feelings.

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

4. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
(a) To the mother's absence.
(b) To the subject's first disappointment in love.
(c) To the child's need for approval.
(d) To the father's absence.

5. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?
(a) Active despair and passive despair.
(b) Gentle despair (active resignation) and violent despair (total destruction).
(c) Angry despair (rage) and hopeless despair (depression).
(d) Physical despair and mental despair.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"

2. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

3. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?

4. In the section called "Talking," how does the lover's discourse change when the amorous subject speaks about love?

5. In "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?

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