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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 effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.
(b) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.
(c) It does not have any effect on language.
(d) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.

2. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Meno.

3. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?
(a) Fulfilling one's childhood dreams.
(b) The will to complete fulfillment in love that exceeds language.
(c) Feelings of sadness over the impossibility of fulfillment.
(d) Self-actualization that bypasses the need for the other.

4. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?
(a) Intelligence.
(b) Secrecy.
(c) Indolence.
(d) Innocence.

5. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
(a) Through appearance (short hair, dark glasses) and monk-like habits (serious study, rising early).
(b) Through refusing to speak to friends about his condition.
(c) Through fasting, sexual abstinence, and total seclusion.
(d) Through long walks alone in the desert.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to this section in the text, what is the best reaction to the other's suffering?

2. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?

3. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"

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

5. What language does the word "atopos" come from?

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