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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. Who is Manuela?
(a) The concierge in the building where Paloma lives.
(b) A maid in a motel.
(c) Renee's friend.
(d) Paloma's friend.

2. What does Renee think of what she read of this author?
(a) It is nonsense.
(b) It is easy to understand but difficult to see any practical applications.
(c) It is brilliant.
(d) It is confusing but has merit.

3. What was Renee's husband like?
(a) An alcoholic.
(b) A brilliant biologist.
(c) A dull, insipid man.
(d) A common man.

4. What does Renee suggest to the young man?
(a) To read some Nietzsche.
(b) To read The German Ideology.
(c) To read Kant.
(d) To read some of Kierkegaard.

5. What is the young man's reaction to Renee's suggestion?
(a) Disdain.
(b) Condescension.
(c) Enthusiasm.
(d) Incredulity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way Renee plays to her clients' prejudice?

2. Where does Paloma hear a statement she thinks is totally wrong?

3. How does Renee feel when Pierre speaks to her?

4. What does Pierre ask of Renee?

5. For whom does Manuela work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Paloma decide to do after observing an interesting rugby player?

2. Where does Renee work; how long has she worked there, and what are her clients like?

3. Describe Renee Michel.

4. What way did Paloma consider suicide and what why does she finally settle upon in her mind?

5. What does Paloma think is important to her mother and what does she say about her mother?

6. What note does Renee receive and what astounds her about the note?

7. What does Renee say when the son of a tenant in the building says something to Renee about Marx?

8. What has Renee decided about phenomenology and how does she use Kant to come to this conclusion?

9. What was Renee's marriage like?

10. Who stops to ask Renee something when she and Manuela are talking and what is Renee's feelings about it?

(see the answer keys)

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