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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. "Intractable/Affirmation" discusses which of the following themes?
(a) How love makes the lover more rational.
(b) The lover's eventual rejection of love as a value.
(c) How the lover affirms love as a value against and despite its devaluation.
(d) Love as an expression of self-sacrifice.

2. 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 play about a 19th-century society woman.
(c) A goddess from classical Greek mythology.
(d) One of Sigmund Freud's female patients.

3. Why is the lover cautious when the loved object complains of the lover's rival?
(a) The lover is too submissive to stand up to the other.
(b) The lover does not want to be a gossip.
(c) The lover could end up in the rival's place some day.
(d) The lover is afraid of revealing his friendship with the rival.

4. The section titled "All the delights of the earth"/Fulfillment is a quotation from which of the following authors?
(a) Novalis.
(b) Nietzsche.
(c) Ruysbroek.
(d) Sade.

5. Which phrase best describes the title "I have an Other-ache?"
(a) The subject feels strong compassion towards the loved object when that person is suffering.
(b) The subject is tired of listening to the other's problems.
(c) The subject experiences pain caused by an insensitive comment made by the other.
(d) The subject deeply misses the loved object when that person is absent.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the feeling that the author refers to in the section entitled "Agony?"

2. At the end of this section, which to spaces or realities does the author oppose?

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

4. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?

5. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?

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