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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What fear did both Miller and Nin have with the possible return of Mansfield?
(a) Mansfield would seduce Hugo in retaliation.
(b) Mansfield would tear them apart.
(c) Mansfield would divorce Miller.
(d) Mansfield would take on another lover.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Nin ask of Miller in May?

2. Over love for whom did Nin disagree with Allendy?

3. How did Nin feel about the equality in her relationship with Miller?

4. What fear keeps Nin from taking complete pleasure in having sex with Miller?

5. Who contacts Nin in May with the express desire to see her?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Miller tell Nin he felt about her husband?

2. How did Miller attempt to advance his relationship with Nin in May?

3. How did Perles and Miller's differing loves for Nin start to become problematic around April?

4. What is significant about Nin's realization that she had never given herself fully to another person?

5. Why was Nin firm about her commitment that she would always choose Hugo over Miller?

6. What revitalized Hugo and Nin's relationship in May?

7. Describe Nin's studio at Louveciennes.

8. What was problematic about Nin's agreement to Eduardo in regards to her journal?

9. How was Miller hypocritical about relationships?

10. Why was Nin unhappy in her home and with Hugo by May?

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