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

2. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?
(a) The nose of a German poet.
(b) A figure in a Flemish painting.
(c) A photograph of the author's mother.
(d) The slightly decayed nose of a disinterred corpse.

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

4. 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 unfaithful.
(c) The other is unobtainable.
(d) The other is a stereotype.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the lover feel about himself when confronted with the other's atopia?

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

3. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?

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

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

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