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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pages 108-144.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where were Miller and Perles staying in April?
(a) Antoine Martine.
(b) Hotel Odeon.
(c) Place Cinchy.
(d) Ste.- Exupery.

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

3. How did Perles feel when Nin went to Miller's bedroom the night they met?
(a) He felt sorry for Mansfield.
(b) He felt angry at Nin.
(c) He was indifferent.
(d) He felt jealous.

4. What revelation did Eduardo make to Nin in the first month of this journal?
(a) He was in love with her.
(b) He had an affair with her husband.
(c) He was repulsed by her actions.
(d) He was battling an opium addiction.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Nin first sleep with Henry Miller?

2. Where was Mansfield staying in April of 1932?

3. When Nin read Miller's new novel in February, how did she feel about it?

4. Where did Eduardo and Nin have their first conversation of the book?

5. What was the motivation behind Miller's tirade about Hugo and Nin's relationship?

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