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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. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"
(a) The failure of love to live up to expectations.
(b) The failure of language employed by the lover to adequately describe the loved object.
(c) The failure of the lover's desire when confronted which the actual adored object.
(d) The failure of the loved object to respond to words like "adorable."

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

3. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?
(a) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pain.
(b) The lover's refusal to circumscribe pleasure.
(c) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pleasure.
(d) The lover's attempt to circumscribe boredom.

4. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?
(a) The lover's language becomes expansive and creative.
(b) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.
(c) The lover seeks to escape the constraints of language.
(d) Language becomes irrelevant.

5. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?
(a) The other is unique.
(b) The other is unfaithful.
(c) The other is a stereotype.
(d) The other is unobtainable.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"

2. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?

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

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

5. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?

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