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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 feeling does the narrator equate with the moment all three are as calm as death?
(a) Sorrow.
(b) Misery.
(c) Pity.
(d) Boredom.

2. What does Simone do while Granero is being killed?
(a) Vomits.
(b) Screams.
(c) Cowers.
(d) Orgasms.

3. What does the couple discuss concerning eggs at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Nothing, as they never speak of their obsessions.
(b) Their sexual powers.
(c) Their beauty.
(d) Their similarity to eyes.

4. What does the narrator say about the time following Simone's accident?
(a) It was miserable.
(b) It was boring.
(c) It was calm.
(d) It was chaotic.

5. What does Simone compare to an egg?
(a) The rear.
(b) The eye.
(c) A ball.
(d) The hand.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the couple fear will overtake Marcelle?

2. After the first stop, why is the narrator agitated?

3. What does the author note is the true meaning of terror?

4. What does the narrator admit is his fault?

5. What does Simone do following her climax?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator claim he believes Simone urinates on the corpse of Marcelle?

2. What happens to Marcelle in Chapter 8, and why?

3. What does Marcelle seem to fear most at the end of Chapter 7, and what does the narrator realize this fear relates to?

4. Describe the sexual fantasy of Simone and the narrator about Marcelle in Chapter 6.

5. Describe the scene in the pigsty in Chapter 9, and explain its significance.

6. What tradition does Sir Edmond tell Simone of, and what is her response?

7. What does the confusion between the cardinal and the narrator on the part of Marcelle seem to show?

8. Explain how the author notes the change in Marcelle as he describes her actions when Simone and the narrator are freeing her from the sanitarium.

9. In Chapter 6, the author purposefully italicizes the words "wide eyes" and "white eggs". What is the significance of this?

10. Explain the author's comparison between his own life and the crow of a rooster.

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