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

2. 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?"
(a) The tendency to hallucinate the other and recreate the sense of waiting even after the relationship is over.
(b) The pain of rejection that haunts him.
(c) The story of a mandarin and a courtesan.
(d) The effects of a childhood loss that continues to affect his relationships.

3. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?
(a) As the ultimate goal for every single person.
(b) As a compromise that must be endured for the sake of society.
(c) As impossible, and therefore more desirable.
(d) As an either/or situation: a matter of success or failure, victory or defeat.

4. When does this desire affect the subject?
(a) When the subject is in a state of raw panic.
(b) When the subject is in a state of despair or fulfillment.
(c) When the subject is irritated.
(d) When the subject is bored.

5. 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) References.
(b) Chapters.
(c) Figures.
(d) Abstracts.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"

3. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?

4. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?

5. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?

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