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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. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?
(a) Evidence of imperfection.
(b) The cause of his desire.
(c) Unexpressed thoughts.
(d) The meaning of beauty.

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

3. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?
(a) A goddess from classical Greek mythology.
(b) One of Sigmund Freud's female patients.
(c) A play about a 19th-century society woman.
(d) A book in which the delirious hero mistakes an image for the actual woman he loves.

4. 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) Language becomes irrelevant.
(d) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.

5. What language does the word "atopos" come from?
(a) Greek.
(b) Latin.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Gaelic.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

2. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?

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

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

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

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