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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 the narrator dare Simone to do in Chapter 1?
(a) Kiss him.
(b) Sit in the saucer.
(c) Go outside nude.
(d) Have sex with him.

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

3. What does the narrator note is a bizarre feeling as he runs?
(a) The sound in his ears.
(b) The sound of his breath.
(c) The grass against his feet.
(d) The wind against his naked body.

4. What smells linger in the room?
(a) Beer, wine, urine, and salt.
(b) Wine and food.
(c) Salt and food.
(d) Blood, sperm, urine, and vomit.

5. What effect does the sight of the wet sheet have on the couple?
(a) They run in terror.
(b) They laugh.
(c) They begin to cry.
(d) They scream.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many other girls attend the event?

2. What does the narrator ask of Marcelle?

3. What does the narrator blame for he and Simone's actions?

4. What brings the parents to the room at the end of Chapter 2?

5. What does the couple invite Marcelle to?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the violence of the thunderstorm linked to the violence of the actions of Simone and the narrator in Chapter 1?

2. Explain the mother's second encounter with the couple in their actions, and her reaction as well as the reaction of the couple.

3. How does the narrator explain Marcelle's features as she gazes at the ocean?

4. What has happened to Marcelle after the orgy? How does the couple discover what has happened to Marcelle? What do they think of doing to help her?

5. What happens when the narrator finds Simone, and what is the accidental result that rises Marcelle from her room?

6. What does the couple see almost immediately after entering the sanitarium grounds, and how do they know this indicates Marcelle is involved?

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

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

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

10. How do the parents find out about the orgy, and what do the parents do when they discover what has occurred?

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