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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. Which of the following topics describes the theme of "The Absent One/Absence?"
(a) The inner motivations for leaving a relationship.
(b) A process whereby the lover's absence is transformed into an abandonment.
(c) The role of absence in film narratives.
(d) The lover's lack of concern for the absent love object.

2. In the section titled "I want to understand," what is the subject trying to understand?
(a) Himself and what it means to be "in love."
(b) What it means to feel secure.
(c) The meaning of life.
(d) The nature of trust.

3. Which author does the quotation "And the night illuminated the night" come from?
(a) Freud.
(b) John of the Cross.
(c) Goethe.
(d) Plato.

4. Select the outcome(s) with which the section Ideas of Solution/Outcomes is concerned.
(a) The possible outcome of a wager.
(b) The possible outcomes of the amorous crisis.
(c) The possible outcomes of the other's illness.
(d) The possible outcome of a novel by Goethe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Jealousy, what does Werther's jealousy derive from, according to the author?

2. In the figure Identifications, with whom or what does the lover identify?

3. What literary lover did thousands of young men identify with and imitate in their dress and actions?

4. According to the author, who carries out the "discourse of absence" historically?

5. In "Inexpressible Love," what two powerful myths does the author mention?

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