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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 understand by witnessing her two co-workers situation?

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

3. Where do Maria and Ralf go before their last date?

4. What does Milan notice about Maria?

5. What does Maria feel as she wanders the streets of Geneva after returning the library book in Chapter 27?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ralf react to Maria discussing her experience with Terence of pleasure in pain?

2. Why does Maria hesitate about going to the exhibition with Ralf?

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

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

5. Describe what the Violet Rod is.

6. Describe what Ralf show's Maria when they wake the morning after her experience with the stones.

7. How do Maria and Ralf connect in their first time when he is her customer?

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

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

10. How does Milan react to the coworker's situation that Maria witnesses?

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

What does the library represent to Maria? Explain how the library symbolizes her own dreams and desires?

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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