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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 long does Maria feel like she and Ralf are intimate for the last time?

2. Where do Ralf and Maria go the night he is her customer?

3. What does Milan consider Maria to be?

4. What does Maria's first special client like?

5. How does Maria react to Ralf's distracting attempts?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene that Maria witnesses between her 2 coworkers.

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

3. How does the librarian react to the books she reads?

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

5. Describe Maria's feelings about leaving Geneva after she buys her ticket home.

6. How does Milan react to Maria spending an evening with Ralf?

7. Describe how Maria's second experience with Terence is different from the first.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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