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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 lover give the other when he offers a gift?
(a) A souvenir of happier times.
(b) Something useless and impractical.
(c) Something he has touched and invested with emotion.
(d) An expensive token of affection.

2. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(b) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(c) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(d) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.

3. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?
(a) The cause of his desire.
(b) Unexpressed thoughts.
(c) The meaning of beauty.
(d) Evidence of imperfection.

4. The Unknowable describes which of the following situations?
(a) The lover will never know how to achieve happiness.
(b) The meaning of love is unknowable.
(c) The lover realizes that the loved being is unknowable.
(d) The past is unknowable.

5. Why is the lover attached to the object?
(a) Because he is irrational.
(b) It is seen as an extension of the loved one's body.
(c) It is nostalgic.
(d) It smells like the other's perfume.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what main subject does the author address?

2. In The Love Letter, what single piece of information is presented with variation?

3. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?

4. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?

5. When does this desire affect the subject?

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