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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. To what does the "ghost ship," in the section entitled The Ghost Ship/Errantry refer?
(a) The errant lover wanders from love to love, believing in the quest for fulfillment.
(b) The lover is haunted by terrible memories.
(c) The lover becomes a ghost of his former self.
(d) The lover dreams of sailing the world with the object of desire.

2. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?
(a) The lover's refusal to circumscribe pleasure.
(b) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pleasure.
(c) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pain.
(d) The lover's attempt to circumscribe boredom.

3. Which of the following describes the lover's madness in "I am crazy"/mad?
(a) Metaphorical.
(b) Poetic.
(c) Supernatural.
(d) Unconscious.

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

5. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Orpheus.
(d) Dionysus.

Short Answer Questions

1. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

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

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

4. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?

5. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

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