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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. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?
(a) The amorous subject and his rival.
(b) The amorous subject and his mother.
(c) The object of love and the lover's rival.
(d) The amorous subject and the object of love.

2. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Untranslatable.
(c) Indolent.
(d) Unclassifiable.

3. Which one of the following authors does Barthes cite in this section on the demonic life of a lover?
(a) Freud.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Proust.

4. In Exiled from the Image-repertoire/Exile, the idea of exile can be associated with which of the following things?
(a) Leaving one's country of birth.
(b) Mourning the death on a loved one.
(c) Amorous mourning; abandoning the image of the other.
(d) Leaving behind old images of the self.

5. In "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?
(a) The amorous subject is ambivalent about random events.
(b) The amorous subject is oblivious to random events.
(c) The amorous subject's happiness is destroyed by random events.
(d) The amorous subject's happiness is increased by random events.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'

2. In "Dedication," the author presents an internal dialogue that accompanies which of the following acts?

3. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

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

5. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?

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