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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 38 through 74.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?
(a) The need to stereotype others.
(b) The traveler's desire to keep moving.
(c) The desire to escape social constraints and labels.
(d) The lover's desire to fit into a particular life structure.
2. The lover compares his gaze on the other's body to which of the following things?
(a) To someone reading a newspaper.
(b) To children who disassemble a clock to see what time is.
(c) To a scientist looking through a microscope.
(d) To a prisoner looking out the window.
3. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?
(a) Language becomes irrelevant.
(b) The lover's language becomes expansive and creative.
(c) The lover seeks to escape the constraints of language.
(d) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.
4. What does the "scenography of waiting" refer to?
(a) A traumatic scene from the narrator's childhood that he rehearses mentally.
(b) A drama in which the narrator goes through the different stages of waiting and their associated actions and emotions.
(c) A book written by Schönberg that deals with waiting.
(d) A French opera.
5. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(b) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.
(c) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(d) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
Short Answer Questions
1. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
2. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
3. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?
4. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
5. When does this desire affect the subject?
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