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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through pages 145-213.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What about Nin hurt Hugo more than anything else in the beginning of the journal?
(a) Her indifference.
(b) Her quick temper.
(c) Her affairs.
(d) Her drug addictions.

3. In May, to where did Dr. Allendy accompany Nin?
(a) Joaquin's piano recital.
(b) Hugo's father's funeral.
(c) The ballet.
(d) A public reading of Miller's.

4. With what activity did Nin express occasional shame?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Menstruation.
(c) Smoking opium.
(d) Masturbation.

5. How did Hugo find out about Nin's affair with John Erskine?
(a) He read her journal.
(b) Erskine wrote him a letter.
(c) He found the gifts Erskine had given her.
(d) Erskine's wife confronted Hugo when she saw him at a museum.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what did Nin agree in April to quell Eduardo's fear?

2. Who suggested to Nin that she might be losing herself in what was not hers?

3. What fear keeps Nin from taking complete pleasure in having sex with Miller?

4. What did Allendy suggest as being the cause of Nin's inferiority complex?

5. Who suggested Nin sees a psychoanalyst?

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