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

2. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?
(a) With images of death.
(b) With anyone who cannot find their ideal mate.
(c) With the oppressed.
(d) With every character or person who occupies the same place in love as he does.

3. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.
(b) The lover's desire annuls the other.
(c) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.
(d) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.

4. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?
(a) Language becomes irrelevant.
(b) The lover's language becomes expansive and creative.
(c) The lover seeks to escape the constraints of language.
(d) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.

5. In "Inexpressible Love," what two powerful myths does the author mention?
(a) That true love is eternal and that it is the most ancient story to tell.
(b) That true love can never be found and that only poets can write about love.
(c) That writing about love heals the heart and that everyone has a soulmate.
(d) That sublimated love engenders beautiful discourse and that one can write about one's passion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?

2. In "Show me whom to desire"/Induction, the narrator notes that there is no desire without _________________.

3. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"

4. According to this section in the text, what is the best reaction to the other's suffering?

5. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?

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