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

2. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?
(a) Self-actualization that bypasses the need for the other.
(b) Fulfilling one's childhood dreams.
(c) Feelings of sadness over the impossibility of fulfillment.
(d) The will to complete fulfillment in love that exceeds language.

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

4. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(b) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(c) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(d) The opposite of what it appears to mean.

5. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?
(a) The anxious lover's feeling of withdrawal from the world and his surroundings.
(b) The lover's nervous breakdown after a break up.
(c) The amorous subject's state of mind upon waking.
(d) The feelings that arise during a late night at work.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

5. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?

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