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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 is the occupation of Lena's friend who tells stories of his job and of his roommate's lustiness in "A Model?"
(a) Prostitute.
(b) Actor.
(c) Model.
(d) Singer.

2. To what mythological character does the painter compare Bijoul?
(a) Athena.
(b) The Furies.
(c) Medusa.
(d) Hera.

3. In what city does "Mandra" take place?
(a) Paris.
(b) New York City.
(c) Madrid.
(d) New Orleans.

4. Why does Mary not want Mandra to meet her husband?
(a) Mandra is racist.
(b) Mary does not like her husband.
(c) Mary wants Mandra to remain a secret in her life.
(d) Mary is afraid Mandra will seduce him.

5. What is Hilda's occupation?
(a) Model.
(b) Singer.
(c) Painter.
(d) Actress.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "A Model," why does the mother's friend believe the narrator could be a model?

2. What, in particular, does Faye buy at the end of the story?

3. What instrument does Rango play?

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

5. What does Rango do to Hilda when he takes her back to his cart?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How does the painter view Bijou?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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