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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Albert spend his honeymoon night with Faye?

2. What about Hilda's body amazes Rango?

3. What sort of relationship blooms between the attractive man at the end of the story who adores Europe and the narrator/model?

4. In what city does "Mandra" take place?

5. What is the name of the narrator/model's boyfriend in "A Model?"

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the use of homosexuality in this novel in the following format:

Part 1) Lina and the narrator.

Part 2) The narrator from "A Model."

Part 3) Mandra.

Part 4) Dorothy, John, and Donald.

Part 5) Lesbians and the lack of homosexual men in this book.

Part 6) Sensuality.

Develop a clear thesis and cite specific examples from the text to support your answers.

Essay Topic 2

How is sexual repression depicted in this book? How does a sexually repressed childhood (with conflicting messages) affect Dorothy and Edna of "Two Sisters?" Why is Lina repressed, despite her reciprocated attraction to her female friend? What about Maria from "the Maja?" How does this affect her marriage to Novalis and how does it affect his art? What do all of the repressed characters have in common? What changes their outlook on sex by the end of the stories and how does it fundamentally seem to change them?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the characters' sexual awakenings in the following format:

Part 1) The repression of several characters.

Part 2) These characters' interactions with others. How does this affect their relationships?

Part 3) Their pride and resistance to breaking through their repression.

Part 4) The hypocritically repressed.

Part 5) The characters after they have experienced their sexual awakenings.

Develop a clear thesis statement and cite specific examples from the text to support your answers.

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