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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What did Nin realize her letters to Miller took the place of in March?

3. How did Eduardo feel about Miller?

4. How did Miller feel about Nin and Mansfield's relationship in January of 1932?

5. About what sexual activity did Nin find herself frequently fantasizing in October?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Nin's relationship with Eduardo.

2. Describe Nin and Miller's first meeting.

3. How did Perles begin to feel about Nin in March?

4. How did Nin characterize her relationships with men to Eduardo and why?

5. How did Miller admit to feeling about Nin around March?

6. Why did Nin initially have sex with Miller?

7. Describe the exhibition Nin and Hugo attend.

8. How did Nin realize that she might be falling in love with Miller in March?

9. Why did Nin feel that Henry and Mansfield had caused her to lose her sense of logic?

10. Discuss Hugo and Nin's relationship in November of 1931.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the differences in Miller and Nin's languages and what it suggested about not only their relationships, but about their personalities. Be sure to also consider the significance of Nin's language becoming coarser like Miller's and what their reactions to her changing manner of speech suggests about the evolution of their relationship.

Essay Topic 2

Using Miller's statements to Nin about her attractiveness and how he believed she gave him so much more than he gave her, construct an essay on the role of honesty in the lives of these people and how it affected their relationships.

Essay Topic 3

How was Nin's need for validation from many different people (usually men) in her life related to her neuroses, possible Oedipal complex, and her many different lovers? In what ways was this driving need for approval the basis of her relationship with Miller?

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