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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. What does the "fulfillment" or comblement of the title refer to?
(a) Self-actualization that bypasses the need for the other.
(b) The will to complete fulfillment in love that exceeds language.
(c) Feelings of sadness over the impossibility of fulfillment.
(d) Fulfilling one's childhood dreams.

2. How does the lover come to perceive the contingencies that affect him?
(a) As signs of love.
(b) As hallucinations.
(c) As a kind of fate.
(d) As random unrelated events.

3. In the same section, what does the lover mourn when the love object is lost?
(a) The loss of belief in true love.
(b) The loss of someone to talk to.
(c) The loss of financial security.
(d) The loss of love and desire, not the loss of the other.

4. In the section on agony, to what does the narrator compare the steady progress of the emotional state he experiences?
(a) To Socrates feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body.
(b) To Werther feeling a sense of hopelessness.
(c) To the story of Tristan and Isolde.
(d) To Gide riding a train.

5. 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 photograph of the author's mother.
(c) The slightly decayed nose of a disinterred corpse.
(d) A figure in a Flemish painting.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?

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

3. In the same section, what does the narrator refer to when he says: "I am an amputee who still feels pain in his missing leg?"

4. What failure does the author describe in the section entitled "Adorable?"

5. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"

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