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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. To introduce the figure Gossip, which of the following scenes does the author employ?
(a) From Plato's Symposium, a conversation between two travelers meeting on the road from Phalerum.
(b) A conversation between Charlotte and her circle of friends in the novel Werther.
(c) An anonymous poem about gossiping neighbors.
(d) A story told by the narrator of In Search of Things Past by Proust.

2. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?
(a) "You" becomes "he" or "she" or "one."
(b) "One" becomes "I."
(c) "He" or "she" becomes "you."
(d) "You" becomes "it."

3. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?
(a) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pleasure.
(b) The lover's attempt to circumscribe boredom.
(c) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pain.
(d) The lover's refusal to circumscribe pleasure.

4. In "Show me whom to desire"/Induction, the narrator notes that there is no desire without _________________.
(a) Confusion.
(b) Sadness.
(c) Prohibition.
(d) Intrigue.

5. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) Self-doubt.
(b) A person whom one addresses.
(c) A desire to please.
(d) Courage.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?

2. What is the source of the embarrassment experienced by parties in a love triangle in "Looking embarrassed?"

3. Which one of the following authors does Barthes cite in this section on the demonic life of a lover?

4. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?

5. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover refer to when he says, "I am odious?"

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