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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. How does Maria feel about returning home after she meets Ralf in Chapter 19?

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

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

4. What does Milan think Maria is ready for after spending an evening with Ralf?

5. Who did her surprise guest restore his relationship with through sadomasochistic rituals?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How do Maria and Ralf connect in their first time when he is her customer?

3. Describe how Terence finds pleasure.

4. Describe what Ralf show's Maria when they wake the morning after her experience with the stones.

5. Why does Maria hesitate about going to the exhibition with Ralf?

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

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

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

9. How does Maria feel about her home and Geneva after her first experience with Ralf?

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

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.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss how the absence of Maria's father could have influenced her ease in assimilating to a life of prostitution?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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