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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. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?
(a) A growing anxiety and loss of all sense of proportion while waiting for the other.
(b) Making lists of the other's faults while waiting for him.
(c) A growing fear of the death of the beloved during his absence.
(d) An increasing apathy regarding the other's absence.

2. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) The adorable is what is adorable.
(b) I love you because you are absent.
(c) The adorable is what is impossible.
(d) I adore you because you are fascinating.

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

4. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
(a) As a kind of fate.
(b) As random unrelated events.
(c) As hallucinations.
(d) As signs of love.

5. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
(a) To the mother's absence.
(b) To the child's need for approval.
(c) To the subject's first disappointment in love.
(d) To the father's absence.

Short Answer Questions

1. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?

2. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"

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

4. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?

5. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what main subject does the author address?

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