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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. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) A desire to please.
(b) Courage.
(c) A person whom one addresses.
(d) Self-doubt.

2. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.
(b) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.
(c) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.

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

4. Which of the following best describes the lover's state in "We are our own demons?"
(a) Triumphant over his inner demons
(b) Indulging in many temptations.
(c) Tired of life and its demons.
(d) Possessed by inner demons.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What image does the author evoke to represent the "exuberance" that results from constantly expending love?

2. What is the dual nature of the figure of Gradiva?

3. What clothing is Werther wearing when he first dances with Charlotte?

4. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?

5. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?

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