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

2. What literary lover did thousands of young men identify with and imitate in their dress and actions?
(a) Werther.
(b) Albert.
(c) Herr Schmidt.
(d) Heinrich.

3. In "Dedication," the author presents an internal dialogue that accompanies which of the following acts?
(a) Receiving a gift from the other.
(b) The dedication of one's life to a cause.
(c) Making a formal commitment to the other.
(d) The act of giving a gift, or some other form of dedication, to the object of love.

4. Why is the lover attached to the object?
(a) Because he is irrational.
(b) It is nostalgic.
(c) It smells like the other's perfume.
(d) It is seen as an extension of the loved one's body.

5. Which of the following characterizes the figure "night" in the section "And the night illuminated the night"/Night?
(a) Metaphors of darkness that describe interior states of the lover.
(b) Total ignorance of the other.
(c) A sense of helplessness.
(d) The lover's favorite time of day.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which relationship dynamic does the section of the text entitled "Domnei" or "dependency" describe?

2. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?

3. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?

4. What does the lover acknowledge in This can't go on/Unbearable?

5. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?

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