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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. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) The adorable is what is adorable.
(b) I love you because you are absent.
(c) I adore you because you are fascinating.
(d) The adorable is what is impossible.

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

3. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?
(a) To a prisoner looking out the window.
(b) To a scientist looking through a microscope.
(c) To someone reading a newspaper.
(d) To children who disassemble a clock to see what time is.

4. At the beginning of the book, in the section entitled, "How this book is structured," what is the name that the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Chapters.
(b) Abstracts.
(c) Figures.
(d) References.

5. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?
(a) The amorous subject and the object of love.
(b) The object of love and the lover's rival.
(c) The amorous subject and his mother.
(d) The amorous subject and his rival.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?

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

3. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?

4. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?

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

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