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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. What causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?
(a) The object of desire rejects his offering of oranges.
(b) The object of desire receives his gift and refuses to share it.
(c) The object of desire shares the oranges he gave her with a neighbor.
(d) The object of desire is oblivious to his gift.

2. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
(a) The other's loss of memory.
(b) The lover's fear of intimacy.
(c) The potential for rejection.
(d) The inability to recover the self when the lover is absent.

3. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
(a) Self-punishment and gentle retreat.
(b) Foreign travel.
(c) Complete rejection of society.
(d) Meditation.

4. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?
(a) Self-actualization that bypasses the need for the other.
(b) Feelings of sadness over the impossibility of fulfillment.
(c) The will to complete fulfillment in love that exceeds language.
(d) Fulfilling one's childhood dreams.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?

2. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?

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

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

5. Why is the lover attached to the object?

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