1. What three things can shatter the ideal and protected Image of the lover according to the author?
(a) Association with the commonplace, former lovers, and desire for others.
(b) Unpaid bills, association with the mundane, and course language.
(c) Attachment to their parents and former lovers, and desire for others.
(d) The loss of their looks, their lack of interest in new things, and poor hygiene.

2. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?
(a) The lover does not bother to ask the other how he feels.
(b) The lover reveals his lack of respect for the other.
(c) The other reveals a lot about himself by being secretive.
(d) The other must know that the lover does not want to show his feelings.

3. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?
(a) The narrator writes a business letter instead of a love letter.
(b) The narrator opens a secret love letter addressed to someone else.
(c) The narrator writes a love letter instead of a business letter.
(d) The narrator describes burning his love letters.

4. "Connivance" describes a situation of connivance that occurs between which two people?
(a) The amorous subject and his rival.
(b) The object of love and the lover's rival.
(c) The amorous subject and the object of love.
(d) The amorous subject and his mother.

5. In the section entitled "To Love Love," the term "annulment" refers to which of the following issues?
(a) The object of desire smothers the lover with excessive attention.
(b) The lover's desire annuls the lover's personal friendships.
(c) The lover's desire annuls the other.
(d) The object of desire rejects the lover's advances.