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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Woman on the Dunes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the beginning of "The Woman on the Dunes," why can't Louis sleep?
(a) He is too aroused.
(b) It is too hot in his room.
(c) He is depressed.
(d) His neighbors are making love loudly.

2. To where does Louis follow the mysterious woman?
(a) The mountains.
(b) The village.
(c) The woods.
(d) The ocean.

3. With what Russian author does the woman describe the Russian prisoner's answers?
(a) Nabokov.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Trotsky.
(d) Gorky.

4. How is the Russian in the woman's story to be executed?
(a) Hanging.
(b) Electric chair.
(c) Gas chamber.
(d) Firing squad.

5. In the woman's story, why was the Russian going to be executed?
(a) He murdered a diplomat.
(b) He was a traitor.
(c) He had kidnapped a diplomat's child.
(d) He had entered the country illegally.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the woman on the beach help Louis?

2. How do Louis and the woman spend time between bouts of love-making?

3. Where does Manuel keep all of his new birds?

4. To what is Louis resistant the night he cannot sleep in "The Woman on the Dunes?"

5. What else happens the second the man penetrates the woman, according to her story in "The Woman on the Dunes?"

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