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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Perles's suggestion to Nin that she loved Miller more than Mansfield affect Nin?
(a) She grew saddened.
(b) She grew defensive.
(c) She felt alienated from Mansfield.
(d) She felt emboldened.

2. What did Nin allow Miller to do in March?
(a) Write about their relationship.
(b) Watch her have sex with Hugo.
(c) Slap her.
(d) Read her journal.

3. In what year did "Henry and June" begin?
(a) 1933.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1931.

4. 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.

5. Who was Nin's guest at the exhibition?
(a) Eduardo.
(b) Miller.
(c) Mansfield.
(d) Hugo.

6. Why did Miller become angry with Nin during his first attempt at seducing her?
(a) She kept talking about her cousin.
(b) He thought she was purposely being coy.
(c) He did not know she had a husband.
(d) She got drunk and passed out.

7. Where did Eduardo and Nin have their first conversation of the book?
(a) Saint-Barthelemy.
(b) Louveciennes.
(c) Paris.
(d) Saint-Martin.

8. According to Nin, what could she not be if she were a faithful wife?
(a) An expert on erotica.
(b) An artist.
(c) A tragic figure.
(d) Unhappy.

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

10. By Nin's standards, what outlived reality?
(a) Romanticism.
(b) Affection.
(c) Sex.
(d) Art.

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

12. How did Hugo feel about June Mansfield when he first met her?
(a) He was attracted to her.
(b) He hated her.
(c) He pitied her.
(d) He was afraid of her intellect.

13. What did Nin admit to being frightened by with Miller?
(a) His politics.
(b) His marriage.
(c) His intensity.
(d) His age.

14. Who was Eduardo's psychoanalyst?
(a) Dr. Freud.
(b) Dr. Allen Dye.
(c) Dr. Allendy.
(d) Dr. Sal Dali.

15. Where did Miller and Mansfield live?
(a) Henry St. Joint.
(b) Valencia.
(c) Stratford-upon-Avon.
(d) Exeter.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Eduardo feel the way he did about Miller in March?

2. With whom does Nin find solace when she was at her most insecure in March?

3. What was Hugo's main fear when Nin confessed her affair with Miller to him?

4. Who did Nin allow to read her journal at the end of March?

5. How did Perles feel when Nin went to Miller's bedroom the night they met?

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