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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 75 through 128.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In this section, what does the lover hope to achieve by touching the other?
(a) Understanding from the other.
(b) A response, an interplay of meaning with the other.
(c) Compassion from the other.
(d) Sympathy from the other.

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

3. What message does the lover hope to send through his asceticism?
(a) He wants to display his askesis as something caused by the other so that person will yield.
(b) He wants to show off his learning to his friends.
(c) He wants to make his mother feel guilty.
(d) He wants to convince society that he is worthy of love.

4. In "To Be Ascetic," the term "askesis" is associated with which of the following acts?
(a) Self-punishment and gentle retreat.
(b) Complete rejection of society.
(c) Meditation.
(d) Foreign travel.

5. Where does the name Gradiva derive from?
(a) A book in which the delirious hero mistakes an image for the actual woman he loves.
(b) A goddess from classical Greek mythology.
(c) A play about a 19th-century society woman.
(d) One of Sigmund Freud's female patients.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom does the following quote belong,"I therefore have decked myself out in finery so that I might be in the company of a fine young man?"

3. Which of the following phrases is an example of tautology, as presented by the author?

4. The lover associates atopia in the other with which of the following qualities?

5. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?

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