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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. 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) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(c) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(d) The opposite of what it appears to mean.

2. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) The adorable is what is impossible.
(b) The adorable is what is adorable.
(c) I adore you because you are fascinating.
(d) I love you because you are absent.

3. In Clouds, why is Herr Schmidt upset?
(a) The church is locked and they cannot get in.
(b) Werther is nice to his fiancée Frederika.
(c) He has had a bad day and decides to take it out on those present.
(d) Werther deliberately tries to aggravate him.

4. Translated from the name Golem, and mentioned in the figure Truth, what do the words "Emeth" and "Meth" stand for?
(a) Silence and death.
(b) Death and resurrection.
(c) Life and death.
(d) Truth and death.

5. In Sobria Ebrietas/Will-to-Possess, what must replace the lover's will-to-possess?
(a) Complete subservience.
(b) The loss of desire.
(c) The will to not possess the other.
(d) The will to forget the other.

Short Answer Questions

1. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?

2. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"

3. What does the "scenography of waiting" refer to?

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

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

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