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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. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?
(a) The need to stereotype others.
(b) The traveler's desire to keep moving.
(c) The lover's desire to fit into a particular life structure.
(d) The desire to escape social constraints and labels.

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

3. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"
(a) As a symbol of fertility.
(b) As a tired metaphor for romance.
(c) As a pretext for intimacy.
(d) As a gift-object and an organ of desire.

4. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
(a) The inability to recover the self when the lover is absent.
(b) The other's loss of memory.
(c) The lover's fear of intimacy.
(d) The potential for rejection.

5. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?
(a) As not having any place in a private world in which the lover is king.
(b) As a threat to the lover's happiness.
(c) As having a particular place in a system from which the lover is excluded.
(d) As irrelevant compared to the object of love.

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 this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?

3. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"

4. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?

5. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

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