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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Chanchiquito.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is Edna able to spend so much time with her new lover, Robert?
(a) She tells her husband that Robert is gay.
(b) Her husband is gone on cruises for months at a time.
(c) Her husband has given her permission to have an affair.
(d) She tells her husband that Robert is in the seminary.

2. Why does Reynolds refuse to sleep with the narrator/model in "A Model?"
(a) He is a homosexual.
(b) He has taken a vow of chastity for his art.
(c) He does not wish to get her pregnant and risk an abortion.
(d) He has a sexually transmitted disease.

3. What does a chanchiquito do?
(a) Sticks its snout up a woman's skirt.
(b) Steals a person's food.
(c) Attacks any dogs nearby.
(d) Steals a person's hat.

4. Why does Dorothy resent Robert?
(a) She believes he is the one who led Edna astray from Harry.
(b) She resents all actors.
(c) Robert reminds her of the lover who broke her heart.
(d) She is very close to her brother-in-law.

5. Despite having broken through her frigidness with Donald, what does Dorothy discover about her love life with Robert?
(a) She still cannot be aroused by him.
(b) She was never attracted to Robert.
(c) Her desire to be with Robert has returned.
(d) Robert has never found her attractive.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Laura's mind during "the Chanchiquito," what forms images on the ceiling?

2. In what is Laura and Jan lying in the second half of "the Chanchiquito?"

3. What excuse does Robert have for identifying Edna with his mother?

4. At her wedding to Robert, what haunts Dorothy?

5. What are Dorothy's career aspirations?

(see the answer key)

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