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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What request did Nin make of Mansfield in April?
(a) Nin asked to have a monogamous relationship with her.
(b) Nin asked her to come home.
(c) Nin asked her to divorce Miller.
(d) Nin asked her to run away with her.

2. If Nin should ever lose Miller, what did she claim would no longer be necessary?
(a) Fear.
(b) Analysis.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

3. By May of 1932, what new situation in his life made Miller acutely uncomfortable?
(a) He had been arrested.
(b) Fame.
(c) Mansfield was pregnant.
(d) The doctor told him he had to stop drinking.

4. How did Nin describe Hugo to Miller when defending him?
(a) Unintelligent.
(b) Passionate.
(c) Violent.
(d) Inarticulate.

5. How did Nin claim to feel in May when she realized her entire life had become secondary to Miller?
(a) Cleansed.
(b) Forgotten.
(c) Honest.
(d) Lonely.

6. How had Nin's romantic love for Hugo changed over the years by her estimation in April?
(a) She felt she was more in love with him than she ever had been.
(b) She felt he was more of a brother to her now.
(c) She was beginning to hate Hugo on some level.
(d) She saw Hugo as a father figure.

7. Why did Nin stay with Miller and Perles in April of 1932?
(a) Hugo grew ill.
(b) Hugo kicked her out.
(c) Hugo was on a trip.
(d) Hugo found another lover.

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

9. What did Allendy initially believe was at the heart of Nin's problem?
(a) She had an Oedipal complex.
(b) She was raped at an early age.
(c) She refused to accept her homosexuality.
(d) She was incapable of loving anyone.

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

11. Which lover caused Nin the most anxiety?
(a) Miller.
(b) Mansfield.
(c) Eduardo.
(d) Hugo.

12. 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) Nin slept with Perles.
(c) Mansfield left him.
(d) He was unable to make love to her.

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

14. According to Nin in July, what was destined to happen between Miller and herself?
(a) He would lose her.
(b) They would end their relationship violently.
(c) He would grow bored with her.
(d) He would go back to Mansfield.

15. What appeared to have been Miller's general attitude toward Nin and Mansfield in regards to his relationship with them?
(a) He loathed them both for being unfaithful to him.
(b) He wanted to possess both of them fully.
(c) He wanted to be in an intellectual relationship without any physicality.
(d) He wanted them both to go away.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Eduardo point out to Nin in April of 1932 in regards to her relationship with Miller?

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

3. Whose books did Nin specifically keep in her studio?

4. Why could Nin no longer feel comfortable in her own home in May?

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

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