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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. How is the heart described in the section entitled "The Heart?"
(a) As a pretext for intimacy.
(b) As a gift-object and an organ of desire.
(c) As a tired metaphor for romance.
(d) As a symbol of fertility.

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

3. The section entitled "Catastrophe" refers to two systems of despair. What are they?
(a) Gentle despair (active resignation) and violent despair (total destruction).
(b) Active despair and passive despair.
(c) Angry despair (rage) and hopeless despair (depression).
(d) Physical despair and mental despair.

4. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Meno.
(b) Socrates.
(c) Plato.
(d) Nietzsche.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?

2. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?

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

4. What is the duration of a discourse on love?

5. What does the lover seek to "read" on the other's body?

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