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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 75 through 128.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?
(a) The narrator writes a business letter instead of a love letter.
(b) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.
(c) The narrator describes burning his love letters.
(d) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.

2. At the beginning of the book, in the section entitled, "How this book is structured," what is the name that the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Figures.
(b) Abstracts.
(c) Chapters.
(d) References.

3. In "Exuberance," which two literary characters does the author compare to discuss the "economy of pure expenditure" in love?
(a) Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.
(b) The narrator and Charlus from the novel The Guermantes' Way.
(c) Werther and Albert from the novel Werther.
(d) Werther and Charlotte from the novel Werther.

4. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?
(a) To a sewing procedure, which is a metaphor in the text.
(b) To the missing tip of a nose, and nothing else.
(c) To the rejection of perfection by the lover.
(d) To the production of a counter-image of the loved object.

5. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?
(a) Unclassifiable.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Untranslatable.
(d) Indolent.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?

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

3. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?

4. In "Novel/Drama," which of the following is true about the writing of the amorous subject's love story?

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

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