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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Lina hate the narrator's lovers?
(a) She believes they are not good enough for her friend.
(b) The lovers had played a cruel prank on Lina years earlier.
(c) She is in love with the narrator.
(d) She mistakes her friend's cries of passion as cries of violence.

3. Where does Michel claim to have found the aphrodisiac he uses on Lina?
(a) Japan.
(b) China.
(c) Nigeria.
(d) India.

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

5. Why does the tall woman's husband refuse to make love to her?
(a) Her hair is too long and he does not wish to disturb it.
(b) She is bigger than the Chinese women.
(c) She does not smell correctly.
(d) She is not a virgin.

Short Answer Questions

1. To what animal is Lina frequently compared?

2. In what city does "The Maja" take place?

3. Which girl falls in line with Manuel's plan when he leaves the bathroom door open during urination?

4. What is transpiring as the tall woman talks to her husband on the phone at her hotel?

5. With what Russian author does the woman describe the Russian prisoner's answers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Novalis and Maria begin to grow apart?

2. Why does Manuel dislike his apartment and how does his wife deal with it?

3. How does Louis "court" the woman in the ocean before he tries to make love to her?

4. Describe Dorothy and Edna in "Two Sisters."

5. For what reasons does Edna begin to find her self-confidence again after becoming estranged from Harry?

6. How does Michel seduce Lina?

7. How does Manuel plan to entice the schoolgirls to his apartment?

8. Why did the Viking woman get married?

9. Why does Dorothy become frigid to Robert and how does she attempt to handle it?

10. How is Maria finally able to overcome her aversion to sensuality?

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