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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. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?
(a) To the mother.
(b) To those friends who doubt the depth of his feelings.
(c) To the other (the one who is loved).
(d) To society.

2. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?
(a) The nature of trust.
(b) The meaning of life.
(c) Himself and what it means to be "in love."
(d) What it means to feel secure.

3. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
(a) Love as an expression of self-sacrifice.
(b) How the lover affirms love as a value against and despite its devaluation.
(c) How love makes the lover more rational.
(d) The lover's eventual rejection of love as a value.

4. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?
(a) The imagined body and the actual body.
(b) Flesh and spirit.
(c) The emotional and the physical.
(d) The body proper such as the skin, eyes, and the voice.

5. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Boredom.
(b) Anger.
(c) Anxiety.
(d) Embarrassment.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?

2. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?

3. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?

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

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

(see the answer key)

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