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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. "The Other's Body" divides the other's body into two parts: what are they?
(a) The imagined body and the actual body.
(b) The body proper such as the skin, eyes, and the voice.
(c) The emotional and the physical.
(d) Flesh and spirit.

2. What does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'
(a) Visits a therapist to discuss the crisis.
(b) Tries to participate in banal conversations and discourse.
(c) Takes a walk in nature.
(d) Drinks more coffee.

3. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?
(a) The lover reveals his lack of respect for the other.
(b) The other must know that the lover does not want to show his feelings.
(c) The lover does not bother to ask the other how he feels.
(d) The other reveals a lot about himself by being secretive.

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

5. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
(a) To the father's absence.
(b) To the child's need for approval.
(c) To the mother's absence.
(d) To the subject's first disappointment in love.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?

2. What are the advantages of the act of annulment?

3. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?

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

5. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?

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