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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. 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.

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

3. What sort of men tend to be attracted to Dorothy and her strength?
(a) Abusive men.
(b) Timid men.
(c) Strong men.
(d) Adventurous men.

4. After making love to Robert, why does Dorothy run away from him and her sister?
(a) She wants to punish Robert.
(b) She feels extremely guilty.
(c) She is angry at Robert for seducing her.
(d) She has become pregnant.

5. What is significant about the mysterious man standing behind the woman at the Russian's execution?
(a) He is coughing with tuberculosis.
(b) He is bleeding.
(c) He is pressing his erection against her.
(d) He is smoking opium.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fill in the blank: the narrator of "Lina" has two male lovers who are named Michel and ______.

2. What interrupts the tall woman's story to the narrator?

3. What are Dorothy's career aspirations?

4. Despite having broken through her frigidness with Donald, what does Dorothy discover about her love life with Robert?

5. How do the woman and her friends spend the night before witnessing the Russian's execution?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is a sirocco and how does it affect the narrator?

3. Why will Maria never allow her husband to see her nude and rarely poses for him?

4. Why does Manuel dislike his apartment and how does his wife deal with it?

5. How is Maria finally able to overcome her aversion to sensuality?

6. Describe the night Louis shares with the woman he swims with during "the Woman on the Dunes."

7. For what reasons, in the woman's story, are the people so stirred up about the impending execution of the Russian radical?

8. In the story "The Maja," why did Novalis marry Maria and how does this affect their marriage?

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

10. Why does Louis walk to the beach in "The Woman on the Dunes"?

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