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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 witness between her co-workers after she was with her first special client?

2. How does Milan react to the two co-worker's problem in Chapter 21?

3. Who does Maria write a letter to?

4. What type of thoughts does Maria have after her first meeting with her special client?

5. Where do Maria and her first special client go to?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Maria and Ralf's third encounter at the hotel.

2. What does Ralf begin to represent for Maria after their first connection?

3. Describe Terence's personal life in relation to his trips to Geneva.

4. How does Maria react to Ralf coming to visit her at work?

5. Describe Maria and Ralf's first experience when he is her customer.

6. How does Ralf react to Maria discussing her experience with Terence of pleasure in pain?

7. Explain how Maria reacts to her second experience with Terence?

8. How does Milan react to the coworker's situation that Maria witnesses?

9. Describe what the Violet Rod is.

10. Describe how Terence humiliates Maria in their second time together.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe what Ralf represents to Maria and what Maria represents to Ralf.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how Maria continuously ignores her instincts throughout the novel. How does this have great importance on Maria's behavior?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast Maria's mentality of what a woman's role is with that of the mentality of most women living in the twenty-first century.

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