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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. What does Maria buy before seeing Ralf again?

2. What does Maria tell Milan after seeing the item of her coworker's and her customer?

3. How does Maria feel with her special client?

4. Who did her surprise guest restore his relationship with through sadomasochistic rituals?

5. Where has Maria's surprise customer in Chapter 23 flown from?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Ralf force Maria to do in relation to pleasure in pain?

2. How does Maria react to Ralf coming to visit her at work?

3. How does Maria feel about her home and Geneva after her first experience with Ralf?

4. How does the librarian react to the books she reads?

5. How does Maria feel about going home after she tells Milan she is quitting?

6. Describe Maria and Ralf's first experience when he is her customer.

7. Describe the scene that Maria witnesses between her 2 coworkers.

8. How is Maria's life very lucrative by her first experience with Ralf?

9. How do Maria and Ralf entice each other after Maria's first time with Terence?

10. Explain how Maria reacts to her second experience with Terence?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Maria's mentality of what a woman's role is with that of the mentality of most women living in the twenty-first century.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how Maria becomes closed off to any deep feelings. Why does this happen and how does she overcome her desperation to feel again?

Essay Topic 3

Describe Maria's cinematic moment and how that supports her entire motivation and desire throughout the novel.

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