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

2. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?
(a) The lover remains unaffected.
(b) The lover creates meaning from the contact.
(c) The lover becomes shy and nervous.
(d) The lover feels excessive distress.

3. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
(a) Meditation.
(b) Complete rejection of society.
(c) Self-punishment and gentle retreat.
(d) Foreign travel.

4. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?
(a) A figure in a Flemish painting.
(b) The slightly decayed nose of a disinterred corpse.
(c) A photograph of the author's mother.
(d) The nose of a German poet.

5. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.
(b) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(c) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.
(d) The lover does not want to be a gossip.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?

2. What is the duration of a discourse on love?

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

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

5. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?

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