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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 "Show me whom to desire"/Induction, the narrator notes that there is no desire without _________________.
(a) Intrigue.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Confusion.

2. What is the best form in which to tell the story of love?
(a) Poetry.
(b) Ancient, declamatory drama.
(c) The novel.
(d) Personal letters.

3. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(b) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(c) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(d) The opposite of what it appears to mean.

4. In "Special Days"/Festivity, what analogy is used to describe the lover's meeting with the loved being?
(a) The child laughing with joy at the sight of the mother.
(b) A family on a picnic.
(c) The child at a circus.
(d) The prisoner released from captivity.

5. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?
(a) The lover becomes shy and nervous.
(b) The lover remains unaffected.
(c) The lover feels excessive distress.
(d) The lover creates meaning from the contact.

Short Answer Questions

1. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?

2. What does the author note about crying in the modern era?

3. How does Werther fall in love with Charlotte in the section "Show me whom to desire/Induction?"

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

5. What is the dual nature of the figure of Gradiva?

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