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

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

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

4. What is the "ordeal" described in the section called Fade-out.
(a) The lover's favorite jeans fade.
(b) The loved being's mother dies.
(c) The loved being's physical beauty begins to fade.
(d) For no apparent reason the loved being withdraws from all contact.

5. "In the loving calm of your arms" describes the embrace of total union between lovers. What contradiction does the lover experience?
(a) The lover is neither completely awake or asleep.
(b) The lover feels both male and female.
(c) The lover is both mother and father.
(d) The lover is both child and adult.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following scenarios is described in No Answer/Silence?

2. In "Inexpressible Love," what two powerful myths does the author mention?

3. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?

4. Why is the lover attached to the object?

5. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

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