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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens when Louis tries to make love to the woman on the beach?
(a) They are interrupted by her friend.
(b) He loses his erection.
(c) He grows ill from swimming.
(d) A storm hits and they are forced to take cover.

2. Why is Manuel unhappy with the rooms he and his wife rent in the beginning of this story?
(a) There are too many roaches.
(b) It reminds him of his childhood home.
(c) It is too far away from his job.
(d) There is not enough light to paint.

3. How does the narrator coax Lina into visiting Michel?
(a) Lina would find his explorer's den interesting.
(b) Michel will provide some of the world's finest wine.
(c) Michel is an amazing musician.
(d) Lina would find his trained monkey amusing.

4. How does the woman's story to Louis end?
(a) She is seperated from the man.
(b) She is taken back to the man's rooms.
(c) She passes out.
(d) She is arrested.

5. Why does Therese initially not care for the rooms in which Manuel wants to move?
(a) It is too far from her circus.
(b) The rooms are dirty and uninhabitable.
(c) It is located across from a school.
(d) The walls are too thin.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Despite her proclivities, what does Lina decry as disgusting?

3. When promising to show the exotic birds to the schoolgirls, what does Manuel say is different about the bird from Brazil?

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

5. How is the Russian in the woman's story to be executed?

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