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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. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?
(a) Secrecy.
(b) Innocence.
(c) Intelligence.
(d) Indolence.

2. "I am crazy"/Mad, what does the lover realize in his madness?
(a) "I" is an other.
(b) Madness is an illness.
(c) I am not someone else.
(d) The other is mad as well.

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

4. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?
(a) The imagined body and the actual body.
(b) The emotional and the physical.
(c) Flesh and spirit.
(d) The body proper such as the skin, eyes, and the voice.

5. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(b) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.
(c) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.
(d) The lover does not want to be a gossip.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?

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

3. What does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'

4. In Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/habiliment, what specifically does the "blue coat and yellow vest" refer to?

5. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"

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