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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 Unknowable describes which of the following situations?
(a) The lover realizes that the loved being is unknowable.
(b) The meaning of love is unknowable.
(c) The lover will never know how to achieve happiness.
(d) The past is unknowable.

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

3. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?
(a) The familiar and the foreign.
(b) That of the theater and that of the mundane world.
(c) That of the lover and that of the mundane world.
(d) The city and nature.

4. What kind of scene is discussed in the figure Making Scenes/Scene?
(a) A "conjugal" argument between lovers.
(b) A public fight in a restaurant.
(c) An argument between the lover and his rival.
(d) A scene of mourning.

5. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"
(a) The pain of rejection that haunts him.
(b) The story of a mandarin and a courtesan.
(c) The effects of a childhood loss that continues to affect his relationships.
(d) The tendency to hallucinate the other and recreate the sense of waiting even after the relationship is over.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?

2. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?

3. What is the duration of a discourse on love?

4. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?

5. What kind of solitude does the figure "No clergyman attended"/Alone discuss?

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