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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Nin first sleep with Henry Miller?
(a) She was slipped a drug.
(b) She was trying to get back at Hugo.
(c) She thought she could write about her experiences for her next book.
(d) She pitied him.

2. What was Hugo's main fear when Nin confessed her affair with Miller to him?
(a) He was afraid she would leave him.
(b) He was afraid that Miller's wife would attempt to seduce himself out of revenge.
(c) He was afraid Miller would get her pregnant.
(d) He was afraid Miller would get her sick.

3. Why did Eduardo feel the way he did about Miller in March?
(a) Nin had abandoned Hugo.
(b) Nin had humiliated Eduardo.
(c) Nin was pregnant.
(d) Nin loved Miller.

4. What was the subject of the book that required Nin to obtain a lawyer?
(a) Incest.
(b) D.H. Lawrence.
(c) World War I.
(d) Light erotica.

5. What did Miller admire most about Nin in March?
(a) Her ability to understand the world around her.
(b) Her ability to juggle many different relationships at once.
(c) Her beauty.
(d) Her writing talent.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Eduardo's psychoanalyst?

2. After meeting Mansfield for lunch, what does Nin conclude about her feelings for the other woman?

3. How did Eduardo feel about Miller?

4. Why did Miller want to unmask Nin?

5. Of what was Nin unsure in March in regards to Miller?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Nin feel about Mansfield when she met her?

2. Describe the exhibition Nin and Hugo attend.

3. How did Perles begin to feel about Nin in March?

4. Discuss Hugo and Nin's relationship in November of 1931.

5. How did Nin characterize her relationships with men to Eduardo and why?

6. Describe Nin's dream about Mansfield and how it related to her neuroses.

7. What were Hugo's insecurities about Nin at the beginning of her journal?

8. How did Nin and Miller's relationship evolve during March?

9. Why did Nin begin to doubt Mansfield's mental stability?

10. Why did Nin feel that Henry and Mansfield had caused her to lose her sense of logic?

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