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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 183 through 234.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
(a) Love as an expression of self-sacrifice.
(b) How love makes the lover more rational.
(c) The lover's eventual rejection of love as a value.
(d) How the lover affirms love as a value against and despite its devaluation.

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

3. What is the verb tense associated with remembrance?
(a) The present.
(b) The conditional.
(c) The past perfect.
(d) The imperfect.

4. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) The lover's desire annuls the other.
(b) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.
(c) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.
(d) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.

5. 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 convince society that he is worthy of love.
(c) He wants to display his askesis as something caused by the other so that person will yield.
(d) He wants to make his mother feel guilty.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?

2. What is the preferred response to the utterance "I love you?"

3. Which of the following best describes the lover's state in "We are our own demons?"

4. In Blue Coat and Yellow Vest/habiliment, what specifically does the "blue coat and yellow vest" refer to?

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

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