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

2. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of financial security.
(b) The loss of someone to talk to.
(c) The loss of belief in true love.
(d) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.

3. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?
(a) Through long walks alone in the desert.
(b) Through refusing to speak to friends about his condition.
(c) Through fasting, sexual abstinence, and total seclusion.
(d) Through appearance (short hair, dark glasses) and monk-like habits (serious study, rising early).

4. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what main subject does the author address?
(a) The lover disguises his distrust of the other.
(b) The lover derides the other's secretiveness.
(c) The lover wonders to what degree he should conceal the turbulence of his passions.
(d) The lover wonders whether he should declare his love.

5. What is the slightly longer characterization the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?
(a) Figments of the imagination.
(b) Lists of terms.
(c) Fragments of discourse.
(d) Literary musings.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?

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

3. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?

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

5. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?

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