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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 the receptionist at Freddy Chaikin's office tell Maria when she arrives without calling?
(a) He's left for lunch.
(b) He's in the projection room.
(c) He's on the phone.
(d) He's with another client.

2. Whom does Freddy Chaikin tell Maria he will show film to if she wants to work again?
(a) Jack Nicholson.
(b) Al Pacino.
(c) George Clooney.
(d) Morty Landau.

3. What does BZ do with the first picture that Carter made with Maria that she doesn't like?
(a) He sells it.
(b) He seldom runs it.
(c) He destroys it.
(d) He runs it often.

4. Why is the volume of the movie that man watches in the next room where Maria has her abortion turned up?
(a) So that she could hear it.
(b) Because the man is deaf.
(c) The dial is broken.
(d) To drown out any screaming.

5. How does Maria respond to Carter when he says, regarding the baby's father, "I suppose you're going to tell me it's not mine"?
(a) "Yes."
(b) "I don't know."
(c) "It is yours."
(d) "No."

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How is Maria playing on the lawn with the baby as Carter recalls in the beginning of the novel?

3. What is the name of the boyfriend Maria had before she met Carter?

4. How does Maria respond to Carter's statement about always dining out?

5. According to Helene, what is often true of selfish women?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the tone of Helene's recollections of Maria and why is it significant?

3. How does Maria feel after her abortion and what does it signify?

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

5. What is the location of Maria's abortion and what does it represent?

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

7. What does Maria's unannounced visit to her agent, Freddy Chaikin, reveal about her profession as an actress and the business of movie-making?

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

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

10. What are the two films Maria has starred in that Carter has made and how does she feel about them?

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