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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. When Maria goes to the hairdresser, a girl comes in and tells her hairdresser that she just had an operation for what?
(a) Broken shoulder.
(b) Brain tumor.
(c) Pelvic abscess.
(d) Eye lift.

2. What does the woman at the Ralph's Market snack counter tell Maria?
(a) That she is hungry.
(b) That she is lost.
(c) That she needs money.
(d) That she is mentally ill.

3. According to Helene, who was "shuttling them in and out of that motel like the dailies"?
(a) Maria.
(b) Les.
(c) BZ.
(d) Carter.

4. Whom does Maria want to talk to the night she sleeps with a bottle of gin by her bed because the pain medication isn't working?
(a) Carter.
(b) Her mother.
(c) Helene.
(d) Les Goodwin.

5. What kind of stories leap out at Maria from the newspaper so that she can no longer read it?
(a) Stories involving children in peril.
(b) Stories involving dead actresses.
(c) Stories involving working mothers.
(d) Stories involving natural disasters.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Carter and Helene ask Maria questions at Neuropsychiatric, what three things does she answer about her plans for the future?

2. When Maria runs into Carter unexpectedly on the street in Beverly Hills after their divorce, where does she tell him she is going for a few days?

3. In the town where Carter is shooting that is between Death Valley and the Nevada line, why does the boy at the bathhouse know that Maria is with the movie?

4. What does Maria tell Benny Austin about why she had to leave him?

5. What is Maria waiting for at the Ralph's Market snack counter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Maria arrested in Vegas?

2. What does Maria remember about meeting BZ for the first time and what does it foreshadow?

3. What does the hypnotist Maria sees tell her about her problems and how does she react?

4. Why does Carter want Maria to stay with him in the desert where he is shooting and what happens?

5. What does Maria drop off at the doctor and why?

6. When Ivan Costello returns Maria's phone call, how does he behave and what does it signify?

7. What is significant about Maria's meeting with Les Goodwin the day of her abortion?

8. How does Maria react when she begins to bleed after the abortion and why?

9. What fantasy does Maria have about Les and Kate and what does she realize about it?

10. What happens when Maria agrees to meet a director for a new film and what does it signify?

(see the answer keys)

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