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

2. 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 fall into a deep sleep.
(c) To be embraced by one's lover.
(d) To lose oneself in a good story.

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. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.
(b) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.
(c) To Gide riding a train.
(d) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.

5. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?
(a) The other is unique.
(b) The other is unobtainable.
(c) The other is a stereotype.
(d) The other is unfaithful.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?

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

3. What language does the word "atopos" come from?

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

5. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?

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