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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Varieties of Human Nature.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the performer in 'Moments of Stress" create in Colette?
(a) The desire to perform.
(b) The desire to give away money.
(c) The desire to get far away from the performance.
(d) The desire to go to Provence.

2. What does the girl find condescending in "Literature"?
(a) Love novels.
(b) Adult literature.
(c) Historical fiction.
(d) Children's literature.

3. Why does the nightingale begin to sing at night according to Colette in "A Fable: The Tendrils of the Vine"?
(a) The vine rises to choke him.
(b) He wants food.
(c) He wants water.
(d) He is in love.

4. What does the younger man see that makes him depressed in "The Pearls"?
(a) His ex-wife remarry.
(b) The older woman's age.
(c) The condition of the North African men.
(d) The start of World War II.

5. Who receives a sub par allowance for costumes in "The Workroom"?
(a) The stage hands.
(b) The dressers.
(c) The women.
(d) The men.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says that the other has ruined her property?

2. What does Colette buy in "Lola"?

3. What friend does Colette write a letter to in "A Letter"?

4. What does Colette's friend say she would prevent her daughter from doing in "If I Had a Daughter"?

5. Why does the man in "The Other Wife" start to feel depressed?

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