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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Allendy characterize Hugo?
(a) Nin's child.
(b) Nin's brother.
(c) Nin's true love.
(d) Nin's father.

2. Why did Miller claim that Nin needed more of a man than Hugo?
(a) He saw her as fragile.
(b) He saw her as passionate.
(c) He saw her as aggressive.
(d) He saw her as lonely.

3. What fear did Perles express to Nin during May?
(a) He was afraid she was stretched too thin in her relationships.
(b) He was afraid she was expecting Miller to propose to her, though he had no intention.
(c) He was afraid Nin would end up pregnant without knowing the child's father.
(d) He was afraid Miller would hurt her.

4. To represent her attachments to both Miller and Eduardo, what did Nin buy?
(a) Two bracelets.
(b) Two brassieres.
(c) Two scarves.
(d) Two belts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What action did Nin and her guest take at the exhibition?

2. Nin referred to a period of time she spent in a certain city in February of 1932, though never revealed what happened there. What city was this?

3. In what year did "Henry and June" begin?

4. What did Nin allow Miller and Perles to do in her studio?

5. In what way did Miller verbally express his love for Nin?

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