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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. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?
(a) As both pathetic and admirable; child and adult.
(b) As tough and courageous.
(c) As worthy.
(d) As unlovable.

2. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.
(b) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(c) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.

3. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what main subject does the author address?
(a) The lover disguises his distrust of the other.
(b) The lover wonders to what degree he should conceal the turbulence of his passions.
(c) The lover derides the other's secretiveness.
(d) The lover wonders whether he should declare his love.

4. 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?"
(a) Gradiva.
(b) Goethe.
(c) Proust.
(d) Socrates.

5. In The Orange/Irksome, an episode involving oranges from the novel Werther is used to describe which of the following feelings?
(a) Fatigue.
(b) A feeling of nausea.
(c) Unconditional love.
(d) A sentiment of slight jealousy.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Show me whom to desire"/Induction, the narrator notes that there is no desire without _________________.

2. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?

3. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?

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

5. What is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"

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