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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 "Agony," what forms does the feeling discussed by the author take?
(a) Shame in front of others.
(b) Jealousy and fear of injury and abandonment.
(c) Sadness and despondency.
(d) Impatience and irritability.

2. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
(a) Through refusing to speak to friends about his condition.
(b) Through fasting, sexual abstinence, and total seclusion.
(c) Through appearance (short hair, dark glasses) and monk-like habits (serious study, rising early).
(d) Through long walks alone in the desert.

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

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

5. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
(a) The other's loss of memory.
(b) The lover's fear of intimacy.
(c) The inability to recover the self when the lover is absent.
(d) The potential for rejection.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

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

3. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?

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

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

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