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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 is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"
(a) "Really?"
(b) "So do I."
(c) "I love you, too. "
(d) Silence.

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

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

4. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover can seek out a new love interest.
(b) The lover is never without the attentions of the beloved.
(c) The lover retreats into the idea of love when threatened by injury or jealousy.
(d) The lover can take on a new identity.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What clothing is Werther wearing when he first dances with Charlotte?

2. "In the loving calm of your arms" describes the embrace of total union between lovers. What contradiction does the lover experience?

3. At Fault/faults, describes the lover's feeling of guilt that results from which of the following feelings?

4. In Clouds, why is Herr Schmidt upset?

5. In "Domnei," which two things is the narrator subject to?

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