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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 the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?
(a) As irrelevant compared to the object of love.
(b) As having a particular place in a system from which the lover is excluded.
(c) As a threat to the lover's happiness.
(d) As not having any place in a private world in which the lover is king.

2. What language does the word "atopos" come from?
(a) Greek.
(b) Hebrew.
(c) Gaelic.
(d) Latin.

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

4. 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) Abstracts.
(b) Chapters.
(c) References.
(d) Figures.

5. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"
(a) As a gift-object and an organ of desire.
(b) As a tired metaphor for romance.
(c) As a symbol of fertility.
(d) As a pretext for intimacy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?

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

3. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?

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

5. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?

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