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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pages 108-144.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What did Allendy initially believe was at the heart of Nin's problem?
(a) She had an Oedipal complex.
(b) She refused to accept her homosexuality.
(c) She was raped at an early age.
(d) She was incapable of loving anyone.

3. What was the subject of the book that required Nin to obtain a lawyer?
(a) D.H. Lawrence.
(b) Light erotica.
(c) World War I.
(d) Incest.

4. What was significant about Nin's feelings for both Hugo and Miller?
(a) She loved them both too equally to choose between them.
(b) She knew she was torturing both of them with her indecision.
(c) She feared both of them.
(d) They were the closest she had come to giving herself wholly to another.

5. Why did Nin think Henry believed her to be more sexually experienced than she actually was?
(a) She was older than his wife.
(b) She was married.
(c) She had affairs behind Hugo's back.
(d) She was an artist's model.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Fill in the blank: at the end of January, Nin concluded that Mansfield was capable of only generosity and of loving _____.

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

4. When Miller's remarks hurt Nin when they were at her studio with Perles, what were his intentions behind saying them?

5. What did Nin realize her letters to Miller took the place of in March?

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