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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 message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?
(a) He wants to display his askesis as something caused by the other so that person will yield.
(b) He wants to show off his learning to his friends.
(c) He wants to convince society that he is worthy of love.
(d) He wants to make his mother feel guilty.

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

3. In The Love Letter, what single piece of information is presented with variation?
(a) I wish you were here.
(b) I am thinking of you.
(c) Do not forget me.
(d) I desire you.

4. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.
(b) The lover does not want to be a gossip.
(c) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(d) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.

5. What does the lover acknowledge in This can't go on/Unbearable?
(a) The Unbearable.
(b) The Unknowable.
(c) The sacrifices the other has made.
(d) The end of desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the definition of languor offered in the section Love's Languor?

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

3. What does the lover's condition cause him to do in "We are our own demons?"

4. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

5. Select the outcome(s) with which the section Ideas of Solution/Outcomes is concerned.

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