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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 75 through 128.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?
(a) The other is unfaithful.
(b) The other is unique.
(c) The other is a stereotype.
(d) The other is unobtainable.

2. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover suffers from seeing the other diminished and excluded from the sentiment he or she provoked.
(b) The lover has to fight for autonomy and a sense of self.
(c) The lover becomes tired of constantly seeking new partners.
(d) There is a sense of claustrophobia on the part of the lover.

3. What does the "scenography of waiting" refer to?
(a) A French opera.
(b) A traumatic scene from the narrator's childhood that he rehearses mentally.
(c) A drama in which the narrator goes through the different stages of waiting and their associated actions and emotions.
(d) A book written by Schönberg that deals with waiting.

4. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?
(a) Angry despair (rage) and hopeless despair (depression).
(b) Physical despair and mental despair.
(c) Active despair and passive despair.
(d) Gentle despair (active resignation) and violent despair (total destruction).

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?

2. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?

3. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?

4. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?

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

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