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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?" which of the following describes the behavior of the amorous subject?
(a) Awkwardly silent.
(b) Self-indulgent with little concern for others' feelings.
(c) Needy.
(d) Everything is over-interpreted and spontaneity becomes impossible.

2. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?
(a) The lover's language becomes expansive and creative.
(b) The lover seeks to escape the constraints of language.
(c) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.
(d) Language becomes irrelevant.

3. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?
(a) As both pathetic and admirable; child and adult.
(b) As worthy.
(c) As unlovable.
(d) As tough and courageous.

4. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) I love you because you are absent.
(b) The adorable is what is adorable.
(c) I adore you because you are fascinating.
(d) The adorable is what is impossible.

5. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?
(a) Compassion from the other.
(b) Sympathy from the other.
(c) Understanding from the other.
(d) A response, an interplay of meaning with the other.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?

2. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?

3. To whom does the following quote belong,"I therefore have decked myself out in finery so that I might be in the company of a fine young man?"

4. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"

5. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?

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