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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. When does this desire affect the subject?
(a) When the subject is bored.
(b) When the subject is in a state of raw panic.
(c) When the subject is in a state of despair or fulfillment.
(d) When the subject is irritated.

2. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"
(a) The lover's lack of concern for the absent love object.
(b) The inner motivations for leaving a relationship.
(c) The role of absence in film narratives.
(d) A process whereby the lover's absence is transformed into an abandonment.

3. What language does the word "atopos" come from?
(a) Gaelic.
(b) Latin.
(c) Hebrew.
(d) Greek.

4. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?
(a) To be overcome with emotion or to swoon.
(b) To be embraced by one's lover.
(c) To lose oneself in a good story.
(d) To fall into a deep sleep.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the term "alteration" refer to in this section of the text?

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

3. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?

4. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?

5. What are the disadvantages of the act of annulment?

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