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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 is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Lists of terms.
(b) Literary musings.
(c) Figments of the imagination.
(d) Fragments of discourse.

2. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.
(b) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.
(c) It does not have any effect on language.
(d) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.

3. What is the "ordeal" described in the section called Fade-out.
(a) The loved being's physical beauty begins to fade.
(b) For no apparent reason the loved being withdraws from all contact.
(c) The lover's favorite jeans fade.
(d) The loved being's mother dies.

4. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.
(b) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.
(c) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.
(d) To Gide riding a train.

5. Which relationship dynamic does the section of the text entitled "Domnei" or "dependency" describe?
(a) The couple decides to discuss problems of dependency.
(b) Common belief always places the woman in the submissive role.
(c) The amorous subject is subjugated to the loved object.
(d) The loved object is much too dependent on the amorous subject.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following describes the lover's madness in "I am crazy"/mad?

2. What does the lover give the other when he offers a gift?

3. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?

4. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"

5. What causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?

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