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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 129 through 182.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Exiled from the Image-repertoire/Exile, the idea of exile can be associated with which of the following things?
(a) Leaving one's country of birth.
(b) Mourning the death on a loved one.
(c) Amorous mourning; abandoning the image of the other.
(d) Leaving behind old images of the self.

2. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?
(a) The lover's nervous breakdown after a break up.
(b) The amorous subject's state of mind upon waking.
(c) The anxious lover's feeling of withdrawal from the world and his surroundings.
(d) The feelings that arise during a late night at work.

3. The other title of Tutti Sistemati," "pigeonholed," is associated with which of the following desires?
(a) The desire to escape social constraints and labels.
(b) The need to stereotype others.
(c) The traveler's desire to keep moving.
(d) The lover's desire to fit into a particular life structure.

4. In the section on absence, to what early experience does the author link the subject's feelings about the absent lover?
(a) To the mother's absence.
(b) To the father's absence.
(c) To the subject's first disappointment in love.
(d) To the child's need for approval.

5. When does this desire affect the subject?
(a) When the subject is in a state of despair or fulfillment.
(b) When the subject is bored.
(c) When the subject is irritated.
(d) When the subject is in a state of raw panic.

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. According to this section in the text, what is the best reaction to the other's suffering?

3. What does the narrator do to escape the perception of "disreality?'

4. In this same section, the author invokes a scene involving a letter. Which of the following describes this scene?

5. Which relationship dynamic does the section of the text entitled "Domnei" or "dependency" describe?

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