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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 does Faye catch Albert doing one day as she comes up the stairs?
(a) Drinking secretly from a flask.
(b) Putting his hand up a servant's skirt.
(c) Violently punching a wall.
(d) Masturbating to a painting of her.

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

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

4. What does Mandra do to Mary?
(a) She sets Mary up on a date.
(b) She allows Mary to move in with her.
(c) She slaps Mary.
(d) She performs oral sex on her.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Mary not want Mandra to meet her husband?

2. What sort of woman does the painter of "The Queen" claim gives him the most pleasure?

3. What does the narrator/model offer to her boyfriend in "A Model," which he refuses?

4. How does Mandra describe her beauty in relation to Miriam's natural beauty?

5. In the eyes of the painter, what was Bijou, his favorite model, unable to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Rango treat Hilda after their first, failed sexual encounter?

2. How does Hilda change throughout the course of this story?

3. How does Fay discover Albert is being unfaithful?

4. Describe Rango.

5. What reasons does Fay's husband give for not making love to her on their wedding night in the story "Saffron"?

6. Describe Mary's life, from the story "Mandra"

7. In what ways is Mary described as being intensely sexual, yet frigid?

8. What happens when Fay demands Albert make love to her?

9. For what reasons is the narrator and the mysterious man at the end of "A Model" drawn together, eventually becoming lovers?

10. Describe the scene where the painter decorates Bijou.

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