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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 when Albert tries to have sex with Faye?
(a) His lovemaking is unsatisfying to Faye.
(b) He cannot sustain an erection.
(c) He is too violent with her.
(d) His servants interrupt them.

2. Who does Paul wish to take the women to see in "Mandra?"
(a) Henry Miller.
(b) Marcel Marceau.
(c) The String Man.
(d) Allen Ginsberg.

3. What does Rango do to Hilda when he takes her back to his cart?
(a) Plays a song for her.
(b) Reads to her.
(c) Kisses her all over.
(d) Massages her legs and feet.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does a chanchiquito do?

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

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

5. Why does Rango grow angry with Hilda?

Short Essay Questions

1. What leads up to Albert finally making love to his wife?

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

3. Why does the painter in "The Queen" claim to like women such as Bijou?

4. How does the narrator compare her attractiveness to Miriam's appeal?

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

6. In "The Chanchiquito", what happens to the old lady in Laura's uncle's story?

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

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

9. How is Hilda forced to deal with her relationship to the American writer?

10. How does the painter know Bijou is faithless at the Art Ball?

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