A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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A Lover's Discourse: Fragments Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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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. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
(a) To the subject's first disappointment in love.
(b) To the child's need for approval.
(c) To the father's absence.
(d) To the mother's absence.

2. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?
(a) The adorable is what is impossible.
(b) I love you because you are absent.
(c) I adore you because you are fascinating.
(d) The adorable is what is adorable.

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

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

5. In this section, how is the term "karma" defined?
(a) As suffering, which the lover hopes to inflict on the other.
(b) As nirvana, which the lover hopes to attain.
(c) As causality, which the lover wishes to escape from.
(d) As nothingness, which the lover hopes to attain.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator states that "the other whom I love...is atopos," what does he mean?

2. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what main subject does the author address?

3. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

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

5. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?

(see the answer key)

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