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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. What happens the day after Lina and the narrator visit Michel?
(a) Lina enters a convent.
(b) Lina sleeps with the narrator.
(c) Lina leaves for Paris.
(d) Lina moves in with the narrator.

2. Which girl falls in line with Manuel's plan when he leaves the bathroom door open during urination?
(a) The plump girl.
(b) The curly-haired girl.
(c) The blonde girl.
(d) The shy girl.

3. What is Michel burning when the narrator and Lina arrive at his apartment?
(a) Opium.
(b) Incense.
(c) Grass.
(d) Wax.

4. Why is Edna able to spend so much time with her new lover, Robert?
(a) She tells her husband that Robert is gay.
(b) Her husband is gone on cruises for months at a time.
(c) Her husband has given her permission to have an affair.
(d) She tells her husband that Robert is in the seminary.

5. Why does Lina grow angry at the narrator in the cafe?
(a) The narrator has just left Michel's bed.
(b) The narrator found the chanteuse attractive.
(c) The narrator tries to kiss her.
(d) The narrator has asked if Lina would like to visit Hans.

Short Answer Questions

1. What excuse does Robert have for identifying Edna with his mother?

2. How does Maria react to her discovery in Novalis's studio at the end of "The Maja?"

3. In the woman's story, why was the Russian going to be executed?

4. After making love to Robert, why does Dorothy run away from him and her sister?

5. Why does Lina claim to hate all men?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the only ways Manuel can become aroused?

2. How does Manuel plan to entice the schoolgirls to his apartment?

3. How does Louis "court" the woman in the ocean before he tries to make love to her?

4. Why does the woman pass out in her story as the Russian dies?

5. Describe Dorothy and Edna in "Two Sisters."

6. Describe Robert and Dorothy's relationship from the time to they meet until the time they first make love.

7. Why does the Viking woman leave her husband and what results from it?

8. In what ways does Lina try to seduce the narrator?

9. Why does Dorothy become frigid to Robert and how does she attempt to handle it?

10. Why is Lina angry about the narrator's lovers?

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