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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. According to the author, what happens to language the more one becomes enamored of a specific person?
(a) The lover seeks to escape the constraints of language.
(b) The lover's language becomes expansive and creative.
(c) The lover's language becomes closed off and limited.
(d) Language becomes irrelevant.
2. Which relationship dynamic does the section of the text entitled "Domnei" or "dependency" describe?
(a) Common belief always places the woman in the submissive role.
(b) The amorous subject is subjugated to the loved object.
(c) The loved object is much too dependent on the amorous subject.
(d) The couple decides to discuss problems of dependency.
3. According to the author, what is always involved in every discourse on love, whether philosophical, gnomic, lyric, or novelistic?
(a) A desire to please.
(b) Courage.
(c) Self-doubt.
(d) A person whom one addresses.
4. In "The Tip of the Nose/Alteration," what does "the tip of the nose" refer to?
(a) The slightly decayed nose of a disinterred corpse.
(b) The nose of a German poet.
(c) A figure in a Flemish painting.
(d) A photograph of the author's mother.
5. In "The World Thunderstruck," what does the subheading "disreality" or déréalité refer to?
(a) The anxious lover's feeling of withdrawal from the world and his surroundings.
(b) The lover's nervous breakdown after a break up.
(c) The feelings that arise during a late night at work.
(d) The amorous subject's state of mind upon waking.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the subtitle of this section, "to circumscribe," refer to?
2. How does the person concealing his feelings wish to be perceived?
3. The Unknowable describes which of the following situations?
4. What is another name used in The Ribbon/Objects to describe the lover's attachment to an object that belonged to the beloved?
5. In this section, "understand your madness" is a phrase uttered by which one of the following figures?
This section contains 366 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) |
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