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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 The Orange/Irksome, an episode involving oranges from the novel Werther is used to describe which of the following feelings?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) A sentiment of slight jealousy.
(c) Unconditional love.
(d) A feeling of nausea.

2. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of someone to talk to.
(b) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.
(c) The loss of financial security.
(d) The loss of belief in true love.

3. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"
(a) As a symbol of fertility.
(b) As a pretext for intimacy.
(c) As a tired metaphor for romance.
(d) As a gift-object and an organ of desire.

4. In "Special Days"/Festivity, what analogy is used to describe the lover's meeting with the loved being?
(a) The prisoner released from captivity.
(b) The child laughing with joy at the sight of the mother.
(c) The child at a circus.
(d) A family on a picnic.

5. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?
(a) A growing anxiety and loss of all sense of proportion while waiting for the other.
(b) A growing fear of the death of the beloved during his absence.
(c) An increasing apathy regarding the other's absence.
(d) Making lists of the other's faults while waiting for him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?

2. In "Novel/Drama," which of the following is true about the writing of the amorous subject's love story?

3. Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/Habiliment refers, in general, to which kind of clothing?

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

5. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?

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