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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 129 through 182.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 amorous subject's state of mind upon waking.
(c) The lover's nervous breakdown after a break up.
(d) The feelings that arise during a late night at work.

2. What image does the author evoke to represent the "exuberance" that results from constantly expending love?
(a) A wild ocean.
(b) A vast desert.
(c) An overflowing fountain.
(d) A deep well.

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

4. What is the narrator's definition of the image in the section Images?
(a) A visual feast.
(b) A romantic painting.
(c) That from which I am excluded.
(d) The lover's fantasy of the beloved.

5. What does the "scenography of waiting" refer to?
(a) A traumatic scene from the narrator's childhood that he rehearses mentally.
(b) A book written by Schönberg that deals with waiting.
(c) A French opera.
(d) A drama in which the narrator goes through the different stages of waiting and their associated actions and emotions.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "I am odious"/Monstrous, what does the lover's discourse do to the other?

2. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?

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

4. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?

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

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