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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 Maria say to the baby after Carter warns her about the baby getting chilled?
(a) "Mommy will be right back."
(b) "Your father wants to talk to you."
(c) "Mommy will take care of it."
(d) "Your father loves you."

2. When BZ comes over, what does Maria ask him about Carter that he doesn't want to answer because he wants him to finish his picture?
(a) How much money he has spent on his mistress.
(b) Who the woman he is sleeping with is.
(c) If the woman he is sleeping with is the star of the picture.
(d) Where he flew with his mistress to.

3. How does Maria pronounce her name?
(a) Mar-a-ah.
(b) Mar-eye-ah.
(c) Mur-i-ah.
(d) Mar-ee-ah.

4. Maria states that she may have been holding all the aces but ___________?
(a) Who was it for?
(b) What if she lost?
(c) Where would she go?
(d) What was the game?

5. Why does Freddy Chaikin say to Maria that he was surprised to hear that she wanted to work again?
(a) Because she refused her last part.
(b) Because she walked off set.
(c) Because she didn't return his calls.
(d) Because she was getting a divorce.

Short Answer Questions

1. What season is it when Carter stops living in the house in Beverly Hills?

2. What happens at the end of the first picture Carter made with Maria?

3. What does Maria throw out in order to insure bleeding?

4. Why does Maria dislike the first picture that Carter made with her?

5. What city does Maria have her abortion in?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Maria do the first month after she and Carter break up and what does it signify?

2. In the period before Maria has her abortion, what rituals does she perform in order to induce menstruation and why does she do them?

3. Where does Maria begin to sleep after her breakup with Carter and why is it significant?

4. When Freddy offers Maria an opportunity for Morty Landau to see film of her, what does her response indicate about her priorities?

5. When Maria thinks of the men that she has been intimate in her life, what conclusion does she come to and how is it important to the novel?

6. What time does Maria want to be on the freeway and why is it significant?

7. Who is Benny Austin and what does he represent in the novel?

8. What is the coral snake Maria thinks about as the novel opens a metaphor of?

9. What does Maria do when she arrives in Baker, the location where Carter is shooting, and what does it represent?

10. What kind of arrangements does Maria have to make in order to terminate her pregnancy at this time?

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