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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 "Special Days"/Festivity, what analogy is used to describe the lover's meeting with the loved being?
(a) A family on a picnic.
(b) The child at a circus.
(c) The child laughing with joy at the sight of the mother.
(d) The prisoner released from captivity.

2. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) A person whom one addresses.
(b) A desire to please.
(c) Courage.
(d) Self-doubt.

3. What happens when one speaks of love in the objective?
(a) "You" becomes "he" or "she" or "one."
(b) "He" or "she" becomes "you."
(c) "One" becomes "I."
(d) "You" becomes "it."

4. In "Exuberance," which two literary characters does the author compare to discuss the "economy of pure expenditure" in love?
(a) Werther and Albert from the novel Werther.
(b) The narrator and Charlus from the novel The Guermantes' Way.
(c) Apollo and Dionysus from Greek mythology.
(d) Werther and Charlotte from the novel Werther.

5. In "Novel/Drama," which of the following is true about the writing of the amorous subject's love story?
(a) Only the Other could write the amorous subject's love story. He cannot do it himself.
(b) Only a third party who has observed the relationship could write the love story.
(c) Only the the amorous subject could write his own love story.
(d) Only a professional could write the novel of the amorous subject's love affair.

Short Answer Questions

1. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?

2. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?

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

4. In Exiled from the Image-repertoire/Exile, the idea of exile can be associated with which of the following things?

5. In the same section, the author notes that to write about love is to "confront the muck of language"; which of the following describes this problem?

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