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

2. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?
(a) The father.
(b) The mother.
(c) The Woman.
(d) The Man.

3. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?
(a) Choosing between two alternatives: this, or that.
(b) Finding a solution to a dispute.
(c) Deciding when to leave the other.
(d) Solving a difficult social crisis.

4. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?
(a) To the production of a counter-image of the loved object.
(b) To a sewing procedure, which is a metaphor in the text.
(c) To the missing tip of a nose, and nothing else.
(d) To the rejection of perfection by the lover.

5. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of belief in true love.
(b) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.
(c) The loss of someone to talk to.
(d) The loss of financial security.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?

2. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"

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

4. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?

5. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

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