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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 whom are Albert and Faye throwing a party?
(a) Their African friends.
(b) The servants.
(c) Their relatives.
(d) Their Spanish friends.

2. 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.

3. Who comforts Faye when she hears Albert having sex with the servant girls?
(a) Another servant.
(b) The dressmaker.
(c) The cook.
(d) The gardener.

4. 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.

5. How does Laura initially describe the animal she sees near the first image on the ceiling?
(a) Burly.
(b) Piglike.
(c) Hairy.
(d) Wolflike.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what state of dress is Miriam when she calls Mandra in to her room to keep her company?

2. How does Jan redirect Laura's attention from the ceiling at the end of "the Chanchiquito?"

3. What instrument does Rango play?

4. Why does Rango grow angry with Hilda?

5. What is Hilda's occupation?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the contrasts (physical and personality-wise) between Jan and Laura.

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

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

4. Describe the relationship the narrator from "A Model" forms with Reynolds while they are in the countryside.

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

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

7. How are Paul and Miriam full of "aristocratic impudence?"

8. How does Fay discover Albert is being unfaithful?

9. How does Jan seduce Laura at the end of this story?

10. What pictures does Jan draw on the ceiling and why?

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