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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what money does Manuel buy the exotic birds?
(a) Doctor money.
(b) Furniture money.
(c) Food money.
(d) Rent.

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

3. Why does Lina hate the narrator's lovers?
(a) She believes they are not good enough for her friend.
(b) The lovers had played a cruel prank on Lina years earlier.
(c) She mistakes her friend's cries of passion as cries of violence.
(d) She is in love with the narrator.

4. Despite her proclivities, what does Lina decry as disgusting?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Judging others.
(c) Lesbianism.
(d) Drinking.

5. What is the cause of Manuel's loss of sexual desire?
(a) He can never simply make love to a woman.
(b) He was beaten for masturbation.
(c) He is self-loathing homosexual.
(d) Therese is frigid.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Fill in the blank: the narrator of "Lina" has two male lovers who are named Michel and ______.

3. Why does Therese initially not care for the rooms in which Manuel wants to move?

4. What happens the day after Lina and the narrator visit Michel?

5. What happens when Louis tries to make love to the woman on the beach?

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