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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. When does this desire affect the subject?
(a) When the subject is in a state of despair or fulfillment.
(b) When the subject is in a state of raw panic.
(c) When the subject is irritated.
(d) When the subject is bored.

2. 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 embraced by one's lover.
(d) To be overcome with emotion or to swoon.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?

2. In "What is to be done?" which of the following describes the behavior of the amorous subject?

3. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?

4. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?

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

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