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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. For what reason does the tall woman admit to having fallen in love with her husband in "Sirocco?"
(a) He lived in China.
(b) He supported her drug habit.
(c) He was taller than she.
(d) He had a lot of money.

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

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

4. What are Dorothy's career aspirations?
(a) Model.
(b) Writer.
(c) Actress.
(d) Sculptor.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Lina's mood whenever the narrator's lovers come to visit?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens at Robert and Dorothy's wedding?

3. Describe Robert and Dorothy's relationship from the time to they meet until the time they first make love.

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

5. Why will Maria never allow her husband to see her nude and rarely poses for him?

6. Why does the Viking woman leave her husband and what results from it?

7. Why is Lina angry about the narrator's lovers?

8. Why does the woman pass out in her story as the Russian dies?

9. What are the only ways Manuel can become aroused?

10. In the story "The Maja," why did Novalis marry Maria and how does this affect their marriage?

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