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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 are Maria's memories filled with after her first special client?

2. What do Maria and Ralf tie around their face?

3. What does Maria witness between her co-workers after she was with her first special client?

4. How does Maria feel about her purchase before she is supposed to see Ralf again?

5. How does Maria react to Ralf's distracting attempts?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Milan react to Maria spending an evening with Ralf?

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

3. What happens between Maria and Ralf the night before Maria is to fly home?

4. Describe how Terence finds pleasure.

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

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

7. Describe what the Violet Rod is.

8. Describe Terence's personal life in relation to his trips to Geneva.

9. Describe what Maria has to consciously push out of her head?

10. What does Ralf begin to represent for Maria after their first connection?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss how Maria continuously ignores her instincts throughout the novel. How does this have great importance on Maria's behavior?

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

Describe how the Latin culture's mentality of living differs from Maria's mentality of living. What does the culture place great importance on that Maria disregards?

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