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

2. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To Gide riding a train.
(b) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.
(c) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.
(d) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.

3. In the section called "Talking," how does the lover's discourse change when the amorous subject speaks about love?
(a) From a rejection of love to a a declaration of love.
(b) From a declaration of love to a renouncement of love.
(c) From an abstract philosophical discourse about love to a personal declaration of love.
(d) From a personal declaration of love to an abstract philosophical discourse about love.

4. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?
(a) The nature of trust.
(b) Himself and what it means to be "in love."
(c) The meaning of life.
(d) What it means to feel secure.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?

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

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

4. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?

5. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?

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