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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bijou not allow the painter to touch her before the event?
(a) She is frigid.
(b) She does not want her paint smeared.
(c) She does not want to ruin their non-sexual intimacy.
(d) She does not wish to be unfaithful to her lover.

2. What is the first thing Jan draws on the ceiling for Laura?
(a) A chanchiquito.
(b) A man.
(c) A dog.
(d) A woman.

3. How does Jan redirect Laura's attention from the ceiling at the end of "the Chanchiquito?"
(a) He proposes to her.
(b) They make violent love.
(c) He begins to sketch her.
(d) He threatens to throw her out of his apartment.

4. What does Faye finally request of Albert?
(a) She wants him to make love to her.
(b) She wants him to grant her a divorce.
(c) She wants him to move away to another country with her.
(d) She wants him to move out.

5. With what group of people does Rango generally live and travel?
(a) Immigrants going to the coast.
(b) Gypsies.
(c) American Indians.
(d) Artists.

6. Fill in the blank for this quote from "Mandra:" "[Miriam and Paul's] obsession [is] with the word that is the key to society--everything must be "________."
(a) Smart.
(b) Amusing.
(c) Rich.
(d) Perfection.

7. What position is Laura holding after Jan is done drawing on the ceiling?
(a) The position of the Pieta.
(b) The pose of the drawn woman above them.
(c) The pose of the Mona Lisa.
(d) The position of the Maja Desnuda.

8. Why is the narrator/model unable to find modeling work in the country?
(a) She is not built for their sort of work.
(b) She is too timid in her approach.
(c) She cannot speak English well enough to convey her needs.
(d) She refuses to sleep with the artists.

9. What does a chanchiquito do?
(a) Steals a person's food.
(b) Sticks its snout up a woman's skirt.
(c) Attacks any dogs nearby.
(d) Steals a person's hat.

10. What does Mandra do to Miriam on the drive at the end of "Mandra?"
(a) Reveals Miriam's indiscretions to her husband.
(b) Promises to run away with her to Europe.
(c) Secretly stimulates her to orgasm.
(d) Injects her with heroin.

11. What does Faye discover when she goes walking one night?
(a) Albert is homosexual.
(b) Albert is masturbating every night in the garden.
(c) Albert is making love to one of the servants.
(d) Albert is weeping every night alone.

12. What sort of relationship blooms between the attractive man at the end of the story who adores Europe and the narrator/model?
(a) They become roommates.
(b) They become colleagues.
(c) They become platonic friends.
(d) They become lovers.

13. What about Hilda's body amazes Rango?
(a) Her strength.
(b) Her hourglass figure.
(c) Her delicacy.
(d) Her paleness.

14. According to the painter, what infuses Bijou's body?
(a) Eroticism.
(b) Hatred.
(c) Frostiness.
(d) Anger.

15. What, in particular, does Faye buy at the end of the story?
(a) Beets.
(b) Saffron.
(c) Jasmine.
(d) Roses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mandra do to Mary?

2. When the narrator/model has to pose with a man and a woman for another illustrator, why is the narrator so uneasy?

3. Why does Reynolds refuse to sleep with the narrator/model in "A Model?"

4. How does the painter know Bijou has been faithless?

5. Describe the relationship between the aristocratic woman and her lawyer in "The Chanchiquito."

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