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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. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?
(a) The other is unique.
(b) The other is unfaithful.
(c) The other is a stereotype.
(d) The other is unobtainable.

2. What language does the word "atopos" come from?
(a) Greek.
(b) Gaelic.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Latin.

3. What does the lover's condition cause him to do in "We are our own demons?"
(a) To laugh and celebrate.
(b) To cry frequently and need reassurance.
(c) To place the body and its fulfillment before everything else.
(d) To inflict harm on himself; to expel himself from love's paradise.

4. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover refer to when he says, "I am odious?"
(a) His feeling s of remorse.
(b) His controlling behavior and lack of generosity towards the other.
(c) His cowardice.
(d) The tendency towards self-indulgence.

5. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"
(a) The pain of rejection that haunts him.
(b) The tendency to hallucinate the other and recreate the sense of waiting even after the relationship is over.
(c) The effects of a childhood loss that continues to affect his relationships.
(d) The story of a mandarin and a courtesan.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which author does the quotation "And the night illuminated the night" come from?

2. What is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"

3. In the section entitled "Waiting," which of the following processes is described?

4. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

5. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

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