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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 this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?
(a) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.
(b) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.
(c) The narrator writes a business letter instead of a love letter.
(d) The narrator describes burning his love letters.

2. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.
(b) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(c) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.

3. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?
(a) As unobtainable.
(b) As needing his protection.
(c) As the perfect lover.
(d) As an imperfect lover.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?

3. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

4. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?

5. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

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