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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When looking at the new apartments, what is the first sound that indicates the rooms are located across from a school?
(a) A schoolbell.
(b) Schoolboys fighting.
(c) Schoolgirls shouting at recess.
(d) A nun's whistle.

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

3. What occurs between Michel, Lina, and the narrator while at Michel's apartment?
(a) They smoke opium.
(b) They have a huge fight.
(c) They create a painting together.
(d) They have a threesome.

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

5. When promising to show the exotic birds to the schoolgirls, what does Manuel say is different about the bird from Brazil?
(a) It sings opera.
(b) It has the head of a monkey.
(c) It has chameleon like abilities.
(d) It has three eyes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the woman's story to Louis end?

2. To what are the girls compared as they run away from Manuel?

3. How does the narrator describe the tall woman on the beach in "Sirocco?"

4. Why is Manuel unhappy with the rooms he and his wife rent in the beginning of this story?

5. Why does Dorothy begin to have an affair with Donald?

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