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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 Maria remember about the girls at her first club?

2. Where does Maria go after spending time with the Arab man?

3. How much money does the Arab man give Maria?

4. Who requests to paint Maria?

5. How many categories does Maria associate to her customers?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the novel begins.

2. Describe why Maria gets angry when her first love speaks to her.

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

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

5. Describe the relationship of Maria and her first boss.

6. What does Maria dream about whenever she returns home?

7. What does Maria struggle with after she adapts to prostitution?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast Maria's life to that of the life of a roller coaster. Why is this a good metaphor for Coelho to have used in support of his comparisons?

Essay Topic 2

Explain how Maria becomes closed off to any deep feelings. Why does this happen and how does she overcome her desperation to feel again?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss how Coelho uses dramatic irony when the librarian lectures Maria about her new knowledge on sex.

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