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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 38 through 74.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the author, what does the term "adorable" represent, or stand in for, in the lover's discourse?
(a) The opposite of what it appears to mean.
(b) Everything: all the qualities that attach the lover to the loved object.
(c) The poetic possibilities of the lover's imagination.
(d) The lover's anxiety about rejection by the loved object.

2. What effect does the other's atopia have on language?
(a) It inspires the lover to new and better descriptions of the other.
(b) It does not have any effect on language.
(c) It makes the lover take refuge in falsehoods.
(d) It makes language indecisive and false; the other cannot be qualified.

3. Which of the following is a definition of the word "laetitia," as presented in the section by that name?
(a) A lifelong pleasure.
(b) A lively pleasure.
(c) A forbidden pleasure.
(d) A subtle pleasure.

4. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?
(a) The Woman.
(b) The Man.
(c) The mother.
(d) The father.

5. To whom is the narrator's asceticism addressed?
(a) To the mother.
(b) To the other (the one who is loved).
(c) To those friends who doubt the depth of his feelings.
(d) To society.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?

2. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?

3. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?

4. At the beginning of the book, in the section entitled, "How this book is structured," what is the name that the author uses to describe the different sections of the book?

5. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?

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