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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How had Miller's feelings began to alter in regards to Nin by May of 1932?
(a) He began to grow disinterested in her.
(b) He fell in love with her.
(c) He started to hate her free-spiritedness.
(d) He grew resentful of her ability to attract others.

2. 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.

3. Over which lover did Nin began to feel unsure of in May?
(a) Eduardo.
(b) Perles.
(c) Hugo.
(d) Mansfield.

4. What did Nin ask of Miller in May?
(a) She asked him to impregnate her.
(b) She asked him to allow her to spend time with Mansfield.
(c) She asked him to write in her journal.
(d) She asked him to break up with her.

5. What was the primary subject when Nin visited Dr. Allendy?
(a) Her books.
(b) Her decision to leave America.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Her relationships.

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

7. 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 never intentionally get pregnant.
(c) She would keep Hugo from hurting him.
(d) She would partially censor her journal for him.

8. What did Nin allow Miller and Perles to do in her studio?
(a) Eat her food.
(b) Drink her wine.
(c) Smoke.
(d) Read her journals.

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

10. Who suggested to Nin that she might be losing herself in what was not hers?
(a) Eduardo.
(b) Dr. Allendy.
(c) Joaquin.
(d) Hugo.

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 manipulating her outrageously.
(d) Miller was the only man to whom she ever submitted.

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

13. Why could Nin no longer feel comfortable in her own home in May?
(a) Hugo was ill.
(b) Miller's absence.
(c) She had kicked Hugo out.
(d) Hugo had a new lover.

14. What did Allendy suggest as being the cause of Nin's inferiority complex?
(a) Her mother's notion that Nin was not intelligent.
(b) Her brother's success at life.
(c) Her childhood frailty.
(d) Her father's abuse.

15. By May, how did Nin begin to view her journal?
(a) A lifeline.
(b) A necessity.
(c) A vice.
(d) A new lover.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following women was Henry not romantically involved with when seeing Nin?

2. In April of 1932, who did Nin claim she would always choose above her other lovers?

3. According to Nin in July, what was destined to happen between Miller and herself?

4. Why was Miller's dislike (as claimed in April of 1932) hypocritical?

5. What did Miller begin to consider in July, despite Nin's insistence that he not?

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