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

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

3. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Plato.
(c) Meno.
(d) Socrates.

4. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.
(b) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.
(c) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.
(d) To Gide riding a train.

5. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
(a) As signs of love.
(b) As hallucinations.
(c) As a kind of fate.
(d) As random unrelated events.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?

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

4. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

5. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover refer to when he says, "I am odious?"

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