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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 will Maria's first special client do for Maria?

2. What does Milan notice about Maria?

3. What book does Maria return to the library in Chapter 27?

4. What is the name of the item that Maria's coworker and customer show Maria?

5. How does Maria feel about her purchase before she is supposed to see Ralf again?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Maria and Ralf entice each other after Maria's first time with Terence?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Ralf force Maria to do in relation to pleasure in pain?

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 how the Latin culture's mentality of living differs from Maria's mentality of living. What does the culture place great importance on that Maria disregards?

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 the symbolism of Maria's diary entry about the caged bird in relationship to Maria's own state of being.

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