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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. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?
(a) The meaning of life.
(b) The nature of trust.
(c) What it means to feel secure.
(d) Himself and what it means to be "in love."

2. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?
(a) The Woman.
(b) The father.
(c) The Man.
(d) The mother.

3. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?
(a) The amorous subject and his mother.
(b) The object of love and the lover's rival.
(c) The amorous subject and his rival.
(d) The amorous subject and the object of love.

4. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?
(a) The lover's nervous breakdown after a break up.
(b) The amorous subject's state of mind upon waking.
(c) The anxious lover's feeling of withdrawal from the world and his surroundings.
(d) The feelings that arise during a late night at work.

5. Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/Habiliment refers, in general, to which kind of clothing?
(a) That worn by the subject during the amorous encounter or with the intention to seduce.
(b) The clothes worn by the object of love at their first meeting.
(c) What the subject hopes to see the object of love wear.
(d) That which the lover borrows from the loved being.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what does the "ghost ship," in the section entitled The Ghost Ship/Errantry refer?

2. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?

3. In the section called "Tutti Sistemati," which of the following describes how the lover sees others?

4. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?

5. In Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/habiliment, what specifically does the "blue coat and yellow vest" refer to?

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