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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Maria work in the draper's shop?

2. Who does Maria talk to about her second love?

3. How old is Maria when she falls in love for the second time?

4. How much time does Maria calculate spending being intimate with her customer?

5. Where is the man that approaches Maria on the beach from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ralf Hart.

2. Describe Maria's opinion about boys at the end of her adolescent years.

3. How does Maria react to her turn of fate after her night with the Arab man?

4. What does Maria determine about men after the modeling agency calls again about the fashion show?

5. Describe why Maria leaves her hometown in Brazil.

6. Explain why Maria's mother is shocked at Maria's change in priorities.

7. Describe how the novel begins.

8. Describe the categories Maria gives to her different types of customers.

9. Describe Maria's calculations of the time she spends with a customer.

10. What does Maria struggle with after she adapts to prostitution?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the initial intimate experiences Maria has with Ralf with those that Maria has with Terence.

Essay Topic 2

Explain why Coelho wrote the novel in the third person omniscient point of view. Compare and contrast what the third person omniscient point of view offers the reader that first person cannot.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast the different moments where Maria ignores all forms of caution and then when she adheres to caution. Explain what makes her react cautiously to some situations and not to others.

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