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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 role does her surprise guest assume over Maria in Chapter 23?

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

3. What does Ralf advise Maria on in Chapter 25?

4. What does Maria's coworker and customer show her in Chapter 28?

5. What does Milan notice about Maria?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Maria and Ralf's third encounter at the hotel.

3. Describe Maria's feelings about leaving Geneva after she buys her ticket home.

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

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

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

7. Describe how Terence humiliates Maria in their second time together.

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

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

10. Describe how Maria's second experience with Terence is different from the first.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Discuss how the absence of Maria's father could have influenced her ease in assimilating to a life of prostitution?

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