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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Hilda and Rango.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is no one able to recognize Maria in the nude portraits?
(a) Novalis paints a different face on her.
(b) Maria is too angry looking compared to her portrait.
(c) Novalis pretends that the model he uses is a really well-known one who is built the same.
(d) Maria is always veiled in public.

2. How do the woman and her friends spend the night before witnessing the Russian's execution?
(a) Reading.
(b) Writing.
(c) Dancing.
(d) Drinking.

3. What sort of relationship blooms between the attractive man at the end of the story who adores Europe and the narrator/model?
(a) They become colleagues.
(b) They become platonic friends.
(c) They become roommates.
(d) They become lovers.

4. What does Louis discover when he awakens the morning after making love to the woman?
(a) He has dreamt the entire encounter.
(b) The woman left him a note, asking him to come visit her later that day.
(c) He has been brought back to his own house during the night.
(d) The woman has disappeared.

5. Why does the tall woman's husband refuse to make love to her?
(a) She is bigger than the Chinese women.
(b) She does not smell correctly.
(c) She is not a virgin.
(d) Her hair is too long and he does not wish to disturb it.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what city does "Little Birds" take place?

2. Why is Manuel unhappy with the rooms he and his wife rent in the beginning of this story?

3. How do Louis and the woman spend time between bouts of love-making?

4. What does Maria believe about Novalis's new paintings and enthusiasm?

5. What were characteristics of the American writer's work that attracted women (such as Hilda in "Hilda and Rango") to him?

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