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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 focus on when she is working as a prostitute?

2. Who is supposed to acclimate Maria to her new job in Chapter 6?

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

4. Where does Maria go upon her arrival at her vacation destination?

5. What is Maria's struggle in prostitution?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe Maria's first night at Copacabana.

3. Describe Maria's first kiss.

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

5. What is Maria's financial situation like when she arrives in Geneva?

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

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

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

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

10. What do Maria's parents do for a living and how does it affect her home?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the different moments where Maria ignores all forms of caution and then when she adheres to caution. Explain what makes her react cautiously to some situations and not to others.

Essay Topic 2

Explain why Coelho wrote the novel in the third person omniscient point of view. Compare and contrast what the third person omniscient point of view offers the reader that first person cannot.

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Geneva with Brazil. How do they 2 locations greatly affect Maria?

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