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

2. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) The lover's desire annuls the other.
(b) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.
(c) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.
(d) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.

3. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Orpheus.
(d) Dionysus.

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

5. What is the duration of a discourse on love?
(a) Five months.
(b) A decade or more.
(c) One year.
(d) It is interminable.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?

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

3. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?

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

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

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