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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pages 53-107; March 1932.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Nin believe about Miller's feelings towards sex?
(a) Sex was degrading to both parties.
(b) Sex was about conquering the other person.
(c) Sex was pointless.
(d) Sex was love.

2. Describe Jean's relationship to Mansfield.
(a) They were sisters.
(b) They were lovers.
(c) They were rivals for Miller and Nin's affections.
(d) They were cousins.

3. What did Nin's dream about Mansfield reveal about the writer herself?
(a) Her ignorance of Mansfield's relationship with Miller.
(b) Her hatred for Mansfield.
(c) Her own inability to be satisfied.
(d) Her insecurities about Mansfield.

4. How did Hugo find out about Nin's affair with John Erskine?
(a) Erskine's wife confronted Hugo when she saw him at a museum.
(b) Erskine wrote him a letter.
(c) He read her journal.
(d) He found the gifts Erskine had given her.

5. When Nin read Miller's new novel in February, how did she feel about it?
(a) She enjoyed his technical skill, but believed he lacked passion.
(b) She was annoyed that he included their affair as part of the novel.
(c) She found it to be boring.
(d) She found it to be beautiful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Nin unable to do for Mansfield in her dream?

2. How did Nin claim she and Mansfield communicated during February of 1932?

3. About what does Mansfield object in regards to Miller?

4. How did Eduardo feel about Miller?

5. After Mansfield's departure in January of 1932, where did Nin go to recover?

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