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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. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?
(a) To the mother.
(b) To society.
(c) To those friends who doubt the depth of his feelings.
(d) To the other (the one who is loved).

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

3. Select the outcome(s) with which the section Ideas of Solution/Outcomes is concerned.
(a) The possible outcome of a wager.
(b) The possible outcomes of the other's illness.
(c) The possible outcomes of the amorous crisis.
(d) The possible outcome of a novel by Goethe.

4. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"
(a) The failure of the lover's desire when confronted which the actual adored object.
(b) The failure of language employed by the lover to adequately describe the loved object.
(c) The failure of love to live up to expectations.
(d) The failure of the loved object to respond to words like "adorable."

5. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?
(a) The lover's desire to fit into a particular life structure.
(b) The need to stereotype others.
(c) The traveler's desire to keep moving.
(d) The desire to escape social constraints and labels.

Short Answer Questions

1. What image does the author evoke to represent the "exuberance" that results from constantly expending love?

2. To whom does the following quote belong,"I therefore have decked myself out in finery so that I might be in the company of a fine young man?"

3. In The Orange/Irksome, an episode involving oranges from the novel Werther is used to describe which of the following feelings?

4. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?

5. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

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