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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a sirocco?
(a) A drought from India.
(b) A hurricane from Australia.
(c) A thunderstorm from South America.
(d) A wind from Africa.

2. What causes Maria to go into deep sleeps?
(a) Wine.
(b) Marijuana.
(c) Pills.
(d) Opium.

3. How many girls promise to come see Manuel the day after they meet him?
(a) Five.
(b) Six.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

4. Why does Donald claim he can never forgive Dorothy?
(a) He saw how she hurt Edna.
(b) He feels like she used him for his money.
(c) Henry mistakenly believed that Donald was Edna's lover and assaulted him.
(d) She was sleeping with him and Robert at the same time.

5. What is Harry's occupation?
(a) Actor.
(b) Airline pilot.
(c) Social captain for cruise ships.
(d) Portrait painter.

6. Why does Lina grow angry at the narrator in the cafe?
(a) The narrator has just left Michel's bed.
(b) The narrator found the chanteuse attractive.
(c) The narrator has asked if Lina would like to visit Hans.
(d) The narrator tries to kiss her.

7. What happens the day after Lina and the narrator visit Michel?
(a) Lina enters a convent.
(b) Lina leaves for Paris.
(c) Lina sleeps with the narrator.
(d) Lina moves in with the narrator.

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

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

10. What painting does Maria resemble?
(a) Maja Maria.
(b) Maja Madre.
(c) Maja Desnuda.
(d) Maja Jesus.

11. What interrupts the tall woman's story to the narrator?
(a) The roof begins to leak.
(b) The wind blows the door open.
(c) The narrator grows ill from the heat.
(d) Her roommate brings a tray of beverage to them.

12. What comment does Harry make about Edna's body that destroys her self-confidence?
(a) He says she has broad shoulders.
(b) He says she has thick hips.
(c) He says she has skinny legs.
(d) He says she has small breasts.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is the beach in the beginning of "Sirocco" located?

2. What part of Edna fascinates Robert the most?

3. For what reasons does the tall woman's new friend find her attractive?

4. Why is Edna able to spend so much time with her new lover, Robert?

5. What is a pissoir?

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