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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. For what reasons does the tall woman's new friend find her attractive?
(a) Her sarcasm.
(b) Her tanned skin.
(c) Her large eyes.
(d) Her height and strength.

3. Why does Robert become enamored of Dorothy?
(a) He sees her naked.
(b) He watches her dance.
(c) He hears her singing.
(d) He has followed her art career.

4. What act does Manuel's wife perform for the circus?
(a) Trapeze.
(b) Contortionist.
(c) Lion tamer.
(d) Snake charmer.

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

6. Why does Novalis grow weary of Maria?
(a) She is not beautiful enough for him.
(b) She has no passion.
(c) She is too enthusiastic in her sexual pursuits.
(d) She is too educated and he cannot keep up with her.

7. What do the girls see when Manuel's kimono slips open?
(a) The scars on his legs.
(b) His chest.
(c) His abdomen.
(d) That he is aroused.

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

9. Why is the mysterious woman not afraid of Louis swimming with her?
(a) He assures her he has no intentions.
(b) She is attracted to him.
(c) Louis knows that she is already married and cannot be touched.
(d) She knows him.

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

11. What does Maria believe about Novalis's new paintings and enthusiasm?
(a) He is merely replicating his one portrait of her.
(b) He is painting only his fantasies.
(c) He is having an affair.
(d) He is ingesting certain drugs.

12. Describe the man the tall woman meets at her hotel when she leaves her husband in "Sirocco."
(a) French painter.
(b) Italian sculptor.
(c) English poet.
(d) American writer.

13. How does Maria react to her discovery in Novalis's studio at the end of "The Maja?"
(a) She gets drunk and begs him to paint her.
(b) She removes her clothes and offers herself to her husband.
(c) She runs away.
(d) She divorces him and joins a nunnery.

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

15. How do Louis and the woman spend time between bouts of love-making?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Eating.
(c) Walking.
(d) Sleeping.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louis discover when he awakens the morning after making love to the woman?

2. With what money does Manuel buy the exotic birds?

3. After making love to Robert, why does Dorothy run away from him and her sister?

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

5. What interrupts the tall woman's story to the narrator?

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