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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 does Simone do to her mother when she discovers them in the barn in Chapter 2?
(a) Yells at her.
(b) Asks her to join.
(c) Urinates on her.
(d) Ignores her.

2. What effect does the startling event at the beginning of Chapter 4 have on Simone?
(a) She is lonely.
(b) She is tired.
(c) She is angry.
(d) She is frightened.

3. Who does the narrator compare his father to?
(a) A senile Catholic general.
(b) A police officer.
(c) An angry god.
(d) A cardinal.

4. Where does the narrator go to find safety after his night in the woods?
(a) Simone's house.
(b) His own home.
(c) Sir Edmond's house.
(d) Marcelle's house.

5. What does the couple notice once they scale the wall?
(a) Someone hanging from a tree.
(b) Someone walking along the grounds.
(c) Someone screaming.
(d) Someone hanging a sheet out a window.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Simone gently kicks the narrator in Chapter 3?

2. What does the narrator dare Simone to do in Chapter 1?

3. How does the narrator access the inside of the building?

4. What does the couple do throughout the evening that is unusual for them?

5. What color hair does Marcelle have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what Marcelle does during the orgy, and once the narrator lets her go.

2. Explain why, despite being modest, Simone and the narrator have the relationship they have?

3. Explain what the narrator thinks as he chases down the unknown naked woman, and the reality of who the woman is.

4. Explain how the orgy in Chapter 2 takes place.

5. Explain the mother's first encounter with the couple in their actions, and her reaction, as well as their reaction to the mother.

6. Explain what Simone does with the saucer of milk in the first chapter.

7. What does Simone develop an urge to do with eggs at the beginning of Chapter 2?

8. What is Simone wearing when the narrator and she first have a sexual experience at the villa?

9. Explain the narrator's trip through the sanitarium.

10. How does the narrator avoid police capture in Chapter 3 and how is this possible?

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