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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 129 through 182.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?
(a) Active despair and passive despair.
(b) Angry despair (rage) and hopeless despair (depression).
(c) Gentle despair (active resignation) and violent despair (total destruction).
(d) Physical despair and mental despair.

2. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?
(a) Stereotype.
(b) Untranslatable.
(c) Unclassifiable.
(d) Indolent.

3. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?
(a) As causality, which the lover wishes to escape from.
(b) As nirvana, which the lover hopes to attain.
(c) As nothingness, which the lover hopes to attain.
(d) As suffering, which the lover hopes to inflict on the other.

4. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Meno.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Plato.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?

2. According to the author, how does the world frequently characterize love incorrectly?

3. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?

4. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

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

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