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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 do a person's tears prove to him?
(a) That he has lost touch with reality.
(b) That his love is real.
(c) That he must cultivate poetry.
(d) That he is weak.

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

3. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?
(a) Sympathy from the other.
(b) Understanding from the other.
(c) A response, an interplay of meaning with the other.
(d) Compassion from the other.

4. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It does not have any effect on language.
(b) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.
(c) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.
(d) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.

5. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?
(a) Deciding when to leave the other.
(b) Solving a difficult social crisis.
(c) Choosing between two alternatives: this, or that.
(d) Finding a solution to a dispute.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is the sensibility of the amorous subject described in the section entitled "Flayed?"

3. To which ribbon does the title of the section The Ribbon/Objects refer?

4. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

5. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?

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