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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. How does Mandra describe her beauty in relation to Miriam's natural beauty?
(a) Superior.
(b) European.
(c) Artificial.
(d) Equal.

2. What body part is the painter from "The Queen" discussing in the following statement? "Her _____. It is impossible to describe her _____ except by saying that they were the _____ of an orgasm."
(a) Voice.
(b) Mouth.
(c) Eyes.
(d) Hands.

3. To what mythological character does the painter compare Bijoul?
(a) Athena.
(b) The Furies.
(c) Hera.
(d) Medusa.

4. What does Bijou promise the painter before the Art Ball?
(a) She will dance with him first.
(b) He will be her first lover of the night..
(c) She will always remain faithful to her.
(d) She will go home with him at the end of the night.

5. What does a chanchiquito do?
(a) Sticks its snout up a woman's skirt.
(b) Attacks any dogs nearby.
(c) Steals a person's food.
(d) Steals a person's hat.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Paul wish to take the women to see in "Mandra?"

2. Who comforts Faye when she hears Albert having sex with the servant girls?

3. Upon her return to New York, where does the narrator/model find some modeling work?

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

5. How does Jan redirect Laura's attention from the ceiling at the end of "the Chanchiquito?"

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Fay demands Albert make love to her?

2. What pictures does Jan draw on the ceiling and why?

3. For what reasons is the narrator and the mysterious man at the end of "A Model" drawn together, eventually becoming lovers?

4. Describe Rango.

5. How does Hilda change throughout the course of this story?

6. How does the narrator compare her attractiveness to Miriam's appeal?

7. How does Jan seduce Laura at the end of this story?

8. In what ways is Mary described as being intensely sexual, yet frigid?

9. How does Rango treat Hilda after their first, failed sexual encounter?

10. How does the painter know Bijou is faithless at the Art Ball?

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