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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 "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?
(a) Solving a difficult social crisis.
(b) Deciding when to leave the other.
(c) Finding a solution to a dispute.
(d) Choosing between two alternatives: this, or that.

2. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?
(a) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.
(b) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.
(c) The narrator describes burning his love letters.
(d) The narrator writes a business letter instead of a love letter.

3. In "Inexpressible Love," what two powerful myths does the author mention?
(a) That writing about love heals the heart and that everyone has a soulmate.
(b) That sublimated love engenders beautiful discourse and that one can write about one's passion.
(c) That true love is eternal and that it is the most ancient story to tell.
(d) That true love can never be found and that only poets can write about love.

4. In "Exuberance," which two literary characters does the author compare to discuss the "economy of pure expenditure" in love?
(a) Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.
(b) Werther and Charlotte from the novel Werther.
(c) The narrator and Charlus from the novel The Guermantes' Way.
(d) Werther and Albert from the novel Werther.

5. In the section called Fade-out, where does the other's fade-out reside?
(a) In the lover's memory.
(b) In the other's appearance.
(c) In the lover's silence.
(d) In the other's voice.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?

2. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?

3. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?

4. Which of the following best describes the lover's state in "We are our own demons?"

5. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?

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