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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a sirocco?
(a) A hurricane from Australia.
(b) A drought from India.
(c) A wind from Africa.
(d) A thunderstorm from South America.

2. Why is no one able to recognize Maria in the nude portraits?
(a) Novalis paints a different face on her.
(b) Maria is always veiled in public.
(c) Novalis pretends that the model he uses is a really well-known one who is built the same.
(d) Maria is too angry looking compared to her portrait.

3. How does the tall woman's husband react when she happily tells him what she is doing at the hotel?
(a) He agrees that they should annul their marriage.
(b) He begins to laugh in disbelief.
(c) He curses her out.
(d) He wishes her the best of luck.

4. How does Maria react to her discovery in Novalis's studio at the end of "The Maja?"
(a) She gets drunk and begs him to paint her.
(b) She divorces him and joins a nunnery.
(c) She removes her clothes and offers herself to her husband.
(d) She runs away.

5. What happens the day after Lina and the narrator visit Michel?
(a) Lina moves in with the narrator.
(b) Lina sleeps with the narrator.
(c) Lina leaves for Paris.
(d) Lina enters a convent.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator coax Lina into visiting Michel?

2. What sort of nightgown does Lina bring to the narrator's home?

3. Where does Michel claim to have found the aphrodisiac he uses on Lina?

4. To where does Louis follow the mysterious woman?

5. What stories does Michel tell as Lina dozes off?

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