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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. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?
(a) The Woman.
(b) The father.
(c) The Man.
(d) The mother.

2. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(b) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(c) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(d) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.

3. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?
(a) A photograph of the author's mother.
(b) The nose of a German poet.
(c) The slightly decayed nose of a disinterred corpse.
(d) A figure in a Flemish painting.

4. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?
(a) As both pathetic and admirable; child and adult.
(b) As tough and courageous.
(c) As unlovable.
(d) As worthy.

5. In "What is to be done?" which of the following describes the behavior of the amorous subject?
(a) Needy.
(b) Awkwardly silent.
(c) Self-indulgent with little concern for others' feelings.
(d) Everything is over-interpreted and spontaneity becomes impossible.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?

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

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