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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 does Maria do after the Arab man returns to his country?
(a) Goes home herself.
(b) Leaves to travel elswhere again.
(c) Returns to her old job.
(d) Signs up at a modeling agency.

2. What does Maria buy to acclimate herself in search of her new job in Geneva?
(a) A wig.
(b) Provocative clothes.
(c) Cosmetics.
(d) A map.

3. How many months pass before Maria adapts to prostitution's rituals?
(a) 6.
(b) 2.
(c) 5.
(d) 4.

4. When does Maria begin working at the bar?
(a) The next day.
(b) That same night.
(c) Two weeks.
(d) Two nights.

5. How does Maria choose to react to her situation in Geneva?
(a) To wish for another situation.
(b) To excape.
(c) To not be the victim.
(d) To be the victim.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Maria remember about the girls at her first club?

2. Who is Maria's second love?

3. How long does Maria work in the draper's shop?

4. Who falls in love with Maria at her first job?

5. How much time does Maria calculate she spends with each customer?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how Maria and the man she meets on the beach overcome their language barrier.

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

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

4. Describe Maria's opinion about boys at the end of her adolescent years.

5. Describe the three roles Maria takes when she works.

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

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

8. Describe why Maria leaves her hometown in Brazil.

9. Describe what the girls at Copacabana advise Maria on and her reaction to it?

10. Describe how the novel begins.

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