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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. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Anxiety.
(b) Boredom.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Anger.

2. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"
(a) Vulnerable and sensitive to ridicule.
(b) Detached.
(c) Prone to negativity.
(d) Aggressive.

3. What is the source of the embarrassment experienced by parties in a love triangle in "Looking embarrassed?"
(a) Lack of understanding.
(b) A secret shared by two of the people in the group.
(c) An unsolicited remark.
(d) Unspoken knowledge shared by everyone.

4. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
(a) Self-punishment and gentle retreat.
(b) Complete rejection of society.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Foreign travel.

5. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?
(a) That of the theater and that of the mundane world.
(b) The familiar and the foreign.
(c) The city and nature.
(d) That of the lover and that of the mundane world.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does that composer claim regarding tears?

2. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover refer to when he says, "I am odious?"

3. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover's discourse do to the other?

4. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?

5. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?

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