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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 183 through 234.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In The Love Letter, what single piece of information is presented with variation?
(a) I wish you were here.
(b) I am thinking of you.
(c) Do not forget me.
(d) I desire you.

2. What is the dual nature of the figure of Gradiva?
(a) Salvation and torment.
(b) Knowledge and ignorance.
(c) Love and hate.
(d) Union and separation.

3. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.
(b) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.
(c) It does not have any effect on language.
(d) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.

4. What does the lover realize about the other in this section?
(a) That he will never possess the other.
(b) That the other is feeling restless.
(c) The the other will reject him.
(d) That he has to possess the other at all costs.

5. What is the "ordeal" described in the section called Fade-out.
(a) For no apparent reason the loved being withdraws from all contact.
(b) The loved being's physical beauty begins to fade.
(c) The loved being's mother dies.
(d) The lover's favorite jeans fade.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Love's Obscenity/Obscene, what gets characterized as obscene in contemporary society?

2. How does the lover react to the effects of reverberation?

3. In "Inexpressible Love," what two powerful myths does the author mention?

4. What assumption does the lover make about the other in the figure Truth?

5. What causes the particular feeling, experienced by the character Werther, in the episode involving oranges?

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