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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. Why is Maria unable to reach Benny Austin when she goes to Vegas?
(a) Because Les shows up and stops her.
(b) Because the number and post office box he gave her are wrong.
(c) Because she doesn't have a number to reach him.
(d) Because BZ and Helene come to take her back to LA.

2. What does a columnist from the trades call to ask Maria?
(a) What she thinks of Carter's new picture and Carter dating Susannah Wood.
(b) What she thinks of Carter dating Susannah Wood and if she is starring in anything.
(c) Whom she is dating and what she thinks of Carter dating Susannah Wood.
(d) If she is starring in anything and what she thinks of Carter's new picture.

3. When Maria runs into Benny Austin at the casino, he tells her, the course of true love is never a straight ______.
(a) Path.
(b) Arrow.
(c) Line.
(d) Flush.

4. Maria recalls working with a girl in Ocho Rios who had just had an abortion in what city where it was hard to get one because of arrests?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Seattle.
(c) New York.
(d) Los Angeles.

5. When Maria attends parties with occasional, third-string "faggots," why is she considered a "modest asset"?
(a) Because she listens to them and understands the marginal distinctions which preoccupy them.
(b) Because she is beautiful and knows lots of famous stars.
(c) Because she listens to them and knpws lots of famous stars.
(d) Because she is beautiful and understands the marginal distinctions which preoccupy them.

Short Answer Questions

1. After running into Carter unexpectedly on the street in Beverly Hills, what does Maria imagine in the water that are "translucent as jellyfish"?

2. What does Helene ask Carter as they wait for the papers to be signed at the divorce hearing?

3. When Maria shows up on Carter's set in the desert, why does he tell her to leave and do something with Helene?

4. When Maria goes to the hairdresser, a girl comes in and tells her hairdresser that she just had an operation for what?

5. What does the doctor on Wilshire tell Maria about whoever did the abortion?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Helene speak during Carter and Maria's divorce hearing and then after and why is it significant?

2. What does Larry Kulik tell Maria about what people are saying about her and what does it signify?

3. How does BZ respond to Maria's pleas that he stop hitting Helene the night after she blacks out?

4. Why does the actor Maria had sex with send her two dozen roses?

5. Why does Maria decline to meet BZ's mother in Pebble Beach?

6. What does Maria realize about the day of the audition?

7. What does the hypnotist Maria sees tell her about her problems and how does she react?

8. What happens when Maria waits for a pay phone at the grocery store and what does it represent?

9. What does Maria drop off at the doctor and why?

10. Why is Maria arrested in Vegas?

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