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

2. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"
(a) Boredom.
(b) Anger.
(c) Embarrassment.
(d) Anxiety.

3. The term "atopos" is associated with which of the following figures?
(a) Socrates.
(b) Plato.
(c) Nietzsche.
(d) Meno.

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 fall into a deep sleep.
(d) To lose oneself in a good story.

5. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?
(a) He wants to convince society that he is worthy of love.
(b) He wants to display his askesis as something caused by the other so that person will yield.
(c) He wants to show off his learning to his friends.
(d) He wants to make his mother feel guilty.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which of the following terms is a definition of "atopos"?

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

5. In "To Be Ascetic," how does the narrator's asceticism take shape?

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