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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. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) I adore you because you are fascinating.
(b) The adorable is what is impossible.
(c) I love you because you are absent.
(d) The adorable is what is adorable.

2. In the same section, the author notes that to write about love is to "confront the muck of language"; which of the following describes this problem?
(a) Language is degraded and common.
(b) Language is paradoxically both too much and not enough.
(c) Language has too many meanings and cannot be controlled.
(d) Language is becomes indecipherable.

3. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Dionysus.

4. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?
(a) He wants to show off his learning to his friends.
(b) He wants to make his mother feel guilty.
(c) He wants to display his askesis as something caused by the other so that person will yield.
(d) He wants to convince society that he is worthy of love.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?

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

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

4. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

5. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?

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