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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Lina appear to hate more than anything?
(a) Sexuality.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Intellectuals.
(d) Music.

2. What disturbs Lina about Michel's apartment?
(a) The high story.
(b) The coldness.
(c) The claustrophobic walls.
(d) The eroticism.

3. While using the toilet, why does Manuel leave the door to the bathroom open while the girls are in his apartment?
(a) He does not want to risk blocking out the birds' voices.
(b) He is afraid of small spaces.
(c) He wants to watch them in the mirror.
(d) He wants them to see him.

4. At her wedding to Robert, what haunts Dorothy?
(a) Robert's wandering eye.
(b) Henry's illness.
(c) Edna's severe depression.
(d) Donald's drug use.

5. What is Michel burning when the narrator and Lina arrive at his apartment?
(a) Grass.
(b) Opium.
(c) Wax.
(d) Incense.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hilda discover she must do with the American writer whenever she wants to have sex?

2. What is the occupation of Lena's friend who tells stories of his job and of his roommate's lustiness in "A Model?"

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

4. How many girls promise to come see Manuel the day after they meet him?

5. In the beginning of "The Woman on the Dunes," why can't Louis sleep?

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