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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 Colette describe in "Rites"?
(a) Valentine's education.
(b) Valentine's work.
(c) Valentine's family.
(d) Valentine's manner of getting ready to go out.

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

3. What makes the painter in "The Landscape" re-think his killing himself?
(a) Painting a self portrait.
(b) Painting Colette.
(c) Painting his daughter.
(d) Painting a landscape.

4. What happens to Colette and Valentine in "One Evening"?
(a) Their horse dies.
(b) Their dogs run away.
(c) Their waiter drop soups on them.
(d) Their car breaks down.

5. What town does the troupe do in "La Fenice"?
(a) Naples.
(b) Berlin.
(c) Paris.
(d) London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the nightingale begin to sing at night according to Colette in "A Fable: The Tendrils of the Vine"?

2. What strange clients does the masseuse in "A Masseuse" talk about?

3. What does the man in "The Murderer" go back to repeatedly?

4. Who does the hairdresser in "A Hairdresser" talk with her friends about?

5. What does the younger man see that makes him depressed in "The Pearls"?

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