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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 1 through 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"
(a) The failure of love to live up to expectations.
(b) The failure of the loved object to respond to words like "adorable."
(c) The failure of the lover's desire when confronted which the actual adored object.
(d) The failure of language employed by the lover to adequately describe the loved object.

2. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?
(a) Language becomes irrelevant.
(b) The lover seeks to escape the constraints of language.
(c) The lover's language becomes expansive and creative.
(d) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.

3. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?
(a) The lover becomes tired of constantly seeking new partners.
(b) The lover suffers from seeing the other diminished and excluded from the sentiment he or she provoked.
(c) There is a sense of claustrophobia on the part of the lover.
(d) The lover has to fight for autonomy and a sense of self.

4. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?
(a) As the perfect lover.
(b) As needing his protection.
(c) As unobtainable.
(d) As an imperfect lover.

5. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.
(b) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.
(c) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?

2. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

3. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?

4. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?

5. When does this desire affect the subject?

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