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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. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?
(a) Nietzsche.
(b) Ruysbroek.
(c) Novalis.
(d) Sade.

2. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?
(a) The anxious lover's feeling of withdrawal from the world and his surroundings.
(b) The feelings that arise during a late night at work.
(c) The lover's nervous breakdown after a break up.
(d) The amorous subject's state of mind upon waking.

3. In the same section, the author notes that to write about love is to "confront the muck of language"; which of the following describes this problem?
(a) Language has too many meanings and cannot be controlled.
(b) Language is paradoxically both too much and not enough.
(c) Language is degraded and common.
(d) Language is becomes indecipherable.

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

5. Which of the following phrases describes the informer in the section called The Informer?
(a) A friendly figure who wounds the subject.
(b) A malicious gossip.
(c) A rival.
(d) An enemy who tries to destroy the subject.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does that composer claim regarding tears?

2. What does the young Freud say to his fiancée in The Love Letter?

3. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?

4. What does the following phrase, "No clergyman attended," refer to?

5. What is the verb tense associated with remembrance?

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