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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 does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'
(a) Tries to participate in banal conversations and discourse.
(b) Visits a therapist to discuss the crisis.
(c) Takes a walk in nature.
(d) Drinks more coffee.

2. In Jealousy, what does Werther's jealousy derive from, according to the author?
(a) From images.
(b) From insecurity.
(c) From thoughts.
(d) From lack of knowledge.

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

4. What do the clouds symbolize in the section by the same name?
(a) A sense of danger.
(b) The lover's darkening mood.
(c) The other's silence.
(d) The lover's loss of hope.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?

2. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

3. What literary lover did thousands of young men identify with and imitate in their dress and actions?

4. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?

5. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

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