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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was always capable of grabbing Nin's attention, no matter how exhausted she was?
(a) Her journal.
(b) Miller's manuscripts.
(c) Her love for Miller.
(d) Letters from Mansfield.

2. How did Miller feel about Hugo?
(a) He felt Hugo was his equal.
(b) He felt Hugo was inferior.
(c) He felt Hugo was a brute.
(d) He felt Hugo deserved better than Nin.

3. What was the motivation behind Miller's tirade about Hugo and Nin's relationship?
(a) He wanted Nin entirely to himself.
(b) He was afraid that Nin would ultimately choose Hugo over himself.
(c) He thought Nin was hurting Hugo unfairly.
(d) He believed that he could drive Hugo away.

4. Which of the following was not one of the traits Miller claimed Nin needed in a partner?
(a) Wiser.
(b) Stronger.
(c) Older.
(d) More lenient.

5. Which of the following women was Henry not romantically involved with when seeing Nin?
(a) Mansfield.
(b) Natasha.
(c) A Surrealist painter.
(d) A dancer.

6. In what way did Miller verbally express his love for Nin?
(a) He told her he needed to write a story about her.
(b) He told her she needed to become more assertive.
(c) He told her she needed to leave him for his own good.
(d) He told her he needed to own her.

7. What did Miller say in Nin's studio that hurt her feelings in April?
(a) He said she was not a talented writer.
(b) He said she was a bad person for cheating on Hugo.
(c) He said she was simply using people.
(d) He said she was not beautiful.

8. When Miller's remarks hurt Nin when they were at her studio with Perles, what were his intentions behind saying them?
(a) He was trying to denigrate her so that he could focus on Mansfield.
(b) He was trying to keep Perles from falling in love with her.
(c) He was trying to hurt her enough so that she would sleep with Perles.
(d) He was trying to tell her he was attracted to her mind, not her body.

9. In May, Nin began to wonder which of the two men (Miller and Allendy) were helping her control her _____.
(a) Weight.
(b) Mental breakdowns.
(c) Neuroses.
(d) Depression.

10. What did Nin claim about her love for Miller?
(a) It made her tougher.
(b) It allowed her to further experience the world of which she had always dreams.
(c) It made her weak.
(d) It heightened her creativity.

11. What did Eduardo point out to Nin in April of 1932 in regards to her relationship with Miller?
(a) Miller was quite abusive.
(b) Nin regarded Miller like her father.
(c) Miller was the only man to whom she ever submitted.
(d) Miller was manipulating her outrageously.

12. To what did Nin agree in April to quell Eduardo's fear?
(a) She would never leave him, even if she stopped loving him.
(b) She would partially censor her journal for him.
(c) She would never intentionally get pregnant.
(d) She would keep Hugo from hurting him.

13. What marked the moment in June in which Miller realized Nin was becoming stronger and coarser in words?
(a) Nin grew angry at him for possessive tendencies.
(b) He was unable to make love to her.
(c) Mansfield left him.
(d) Nin slept with Perles.

14. Describe Miller's love for Nin.
(a) Emotional.
(b) Spiritual.
(c) Physical.
(d) Mental.

15. How did Nin refer to the obligations Miller had to attend to because of his books?
(a) Ugly situations.
(b) Tacky situations.
(c) Chic situations.
(d) Bourgeois situations.

Short Answer Questions

1. What part of her body did Nin show Allendy in May?

2. Who was Miller's polar opposite in regards to reliability with Nin?

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

4. In April, how did Perles' feelings for Nin change?

5. Who did Nin claim for her desire to end her journal?

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