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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 this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Orpheus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Dionysus.

2. In the section entitled, "I am engulfed, I succumb," the author discusses which of the following desires?
(a) To fall into a deep sleep.
(b) To be overcome with emotion or to swoon.
(c) To lose oneself in a good story.
(d) To be embraced by one's lover.

3. In "Catastrophe," what causes the lover's panic?
(a) The potential for rejection.
(b) The lover's fear of intimacy.
(c) The other's loss of memory.
(d) The inability to recover the self when the lover is absent.

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

5. In "What is to be done?" what problem does the author present?
(a) Deciding when to leave the other.
(b) Solving a difficult social crisis.
(c) Choosing between two alternatives: this, or that.
(d) Finding a solution to a dispute.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the lover respond to accidental contact with the desired being in the section entitled "When my finger accidentally..."?

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

3. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?

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

5. In Dark Glasses/To Hide, what paradox is revealed in the act of concealment?

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