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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 do the clouds symbolize in the section by the same name?
(a) The lover's darkening mood.
(b) The lover's loss of hope.
(c) The other's silence.
(d) A sense of danger.

2. In the section called Fade-out, where does the other's fade-out reside?
(a) In the lover's silence.
(b) In the other's appearance.
(c) In the lover's memory.
(d) In the other's voice.

3. What kind of acts does the lover perform in The Last Leaf/Magic.
(a) Acts of infidelity.
(b) Acts of selfless love.
(c) Magic consultations, secret rites, and votive actions.
(d) Meditations, contemplations, and silences.

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

5. What is the definition of languor offered in the section Love's Languor?
(a) A continuous state of amorous desire without the will to possess.
(b) A feeling of pleasurable melancholy.
(c) A feeling of drowsiness after an evening with the beloved.
(d) A feeling of gentle laziness.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?

3. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?

4. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

5. In "Exuberance," which two literary characters does the author compare to discuss the "economy of pure expenditure" in love?

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