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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator do when the mother enters the bedroom?
(a) Steps into the bathroom.
(b) Stands up.
(c) Steps outside.
(d) Sits in his chair.

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

3. Why does the narrator claim others see the world as decent?
(a) Because decent people have gilded eyes.
(b) Because decency can't see indecency.
(c) Because decent people are stupid.
(d) Because decent people don't pay attention.

4. What does Simone do with the second bull testicle?
(a) She throws it.
(b) She places it in her vulva.
(c) She eats it.
(d) She holds it in her hands.

5. What does the narrator note causes the two later in life to interrogate one another with their eyes?
(a) The smell of eggs.
(b) The smell of urine.
(c) The sight of eggs.
(d) The smell of disease.

6. What is Marcelle doing at the beginning of Chapter 8?
(a) Sleeping.
(b) Choking Simone.
(c) Kissing the narrator.
(d) Staring into space.

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

8. What does Simone want to do with the testicles?
(a) Sit in the dish of them.
(b) Eat them.
(c) Throw them.
(d) Hold them in her hands.

9. What does the narrator note Marcelle has become?
(a) A mental case.
(b) A recluse.
(c) A prisoner within her own mind.
(d) A physical representation of his and Simone's emotions.

10. With what does the narrator associate the moon?
(a) Feces.
(b) Lightening.
(c) Vaginal blood.
(d) Urine.

11. What does the couple plan to do concerning Marcelle?
(a) They plan to kidnap her for ransom.
(b) They plan to go see her.
(c) They plan to free her.
(d) They plan to kill her.

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

13. How does Simone change after Marcelle's death?
(a) She becomes distant and bored with life.
(b) She becomes less sexual.
(c) She becomes more depressed.
(d) She becomes more playful.

14. What does the narrator admit is his fault?
(a) Marcelle's death.
(b) A car accident.
(c) Simone's death.
(d) The state of the threesome's existence.

15. What does Simone do following her climax?
(a) Makes love.
(b) Urinates on the eggs.
(c) Takes a shower.
(d) Takes a bath.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simone ask Sir Edmond to do for her?

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

3. What causes Simone to climax as she watches the eggs?

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

5. How would the narrator start again with Marcelle?

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