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

2. In "Events, Setbacks and Annoyances," which of the following describes the effect of "contingencies" on the amorous subject?
(a) The amorous subject is ambivalent about random events.
(b) The amorous subject is oblivious to random events.
(c) The amorous subject's happiness is increased by random events.
(d) The amorous subject's happiness is destroyed by random events.

3. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?
(a) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pain.
(b) The lover's attempt to circumscribe pleasure.
(c) The lover's refusal to circumscribe pleasure.
(d) The lover's attempt to circumscribe boredom.

4. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(b) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.
(c) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.
(d) The lover does not want to be a gossip.

5. What is the duration of a discourse on love?
(a) Five months.
(b) It is interminable.
(c) A decade or more.
(d) One year.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the question that worries the lover with regard to the heart?

2. How does the lover see the other once he has established the other's atopia?

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

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

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

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