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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pages 53-107; March 1932.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Nin leave a dinner with Hugo to do in March of 1932?
(a) Read a letter from Miller.
(b) Took a call from Mansfield.
(c) Read a letter from Mansfield.
(d) Took a call from Miller.

2. What did Henry do to Nin that initially repulses her in their first meeting?
(a) He kissed her.
(b) He got her drunk.
(c) He flirted with her.
(d) He refused to shake her hand.

3. How did Miller feel about Nin and Mansfield's relationship in January of 1932?
(a) He began to hate Nin.
(b) He began to entertain thoughts of living with both women.
(c) He began to feel emasculated by their relationship.
(d) He began to hate Mansfield.

4. Who suggested Nin sees a psychoanalyst?
(a) Eduardo.
(b) Mansfield.
(c) Miller.
(d) Hugo.

5. How did Nin claim she and Mansfield communicated during February of 1932?
(a) They developed a secret language.
(b) Drawings.
(c) Dreams.
(d) Short stories that alluded to their feelings for one another.

Short Answer Questions

1. By Nin's standards, what outlived reality?

2. Where did Eduardo and Nin have their first conversation of the book?

3. Of what does Eduardo obsess when it comes to Nin?

4. What did Nin's dream about Mansfield reveal about the writer herself?

5. How did Nin's allowance of Miller in March affect him?

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