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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 name of the casino where Maria runs into Benny Austin?
(a) Dunes.
(b) Stardust.
(c) Monte Carlo.
(d) Flamingo.
2. How does BZ die at the end of the novel?
(a) Maria kills him.
(b) Carter kills him.
(c) He commits suicide.
(d) He gets cancer.
3. In the courtroom, Helene confirmed that the defendant, Carter Lang, had repeatedly _______and in other ways _________the plaintiff, Mrs. Maria Lang.
(a) Derided; abused.
(b) Struck; humiliated.
(c) Yelled at; derided.
(d) Humiliated; derided.
4. What does the woman at the Ralph's Market snack counter tell Maria?
(a) That she is hungry.
(b) That she needs money.
(c) That she is mentally ill.
(d) That she is lost.
5. Whom does Maria want to talk to the night she sleeps with a bottle of gin by her bed because the pain medication isn't working?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Les Goodwin.
(c) Helene.
(d) Carter.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does a columnist from the trades call to ask Maria?
2. What is Maria waiting for at the Ralph's Market snack counter?
3. What does Larry Kulik invite Maria to do at his place?
4. What kind of stories leap out at Maria from the newspaper so that she can no longer read it?
5. According to Helene, what did the Guatemalan from the employment agency steal from Maria?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Maria realize about the day of the audition?
2. How does Helene speak during Carter and Maria's divorce hearing and then after and why is it significant?
3. Why is Maria arrested in Vegas?
4. What does the hypnotist Maria sees tell her about her problems and how does she react?
5. What does Maria do when she runs into Benny Austin at the Flamingo and why?
6. What does watching the television and reading the newspaper reveal about Maria's state of mind?
7. When Carter tells Maria that his film will be showing at Cannes, how does she respond?
8. How does Maria get home from Vegas after being arrested and why is it significant?
9. How does Maria prepare to meet Les in a hotel room and what happens when he arrives?
10. What happens when Maria agrees to meet a director for a new film and what does it signify?
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