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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the person want who calls Maria before she runs out of money?

2. Who requests to paint Maria?

3. Where does Maria end up after her stroll?

4. What does the man that approaches Maria on the beach return with?

5. What does Maria separate in her work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the categories Maria gives to her different types of customers.

2. Describe Maria's calculations of the time she spends with a customer.

3. Describe where Maria goes after leaving her first job?

4. What is significant about what Maria remembers the girls at Roger's club telling her?

5. Explain how Maria feels about taking the job in Switzerland.

6. Describe Maria's first night at Copacabana.

7. Describe what Maria does to help her depression during her period of no work.

8. Describe the proposition Maria receives from the Arab after accepting her modeling job.

9. Describe how Maria feels the night after her experience with the Arab man.

10. Describe what Maria does to become better educated about her new profession?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Maria's pleasure in pain experiences with Terence and Ralf. Why do they differ so greatly?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how the history of prostitution is prevalent throughout the novel.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Maria's mentality of what a woman's role is with that of the mentality of most women living in the twenty-first century.

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