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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Simone ask Sir Edmond to do for her?
(a) Bring her the raw tongue of a bull.
(b) Bring her the raw testicles of a bull.
(c) Bring her the raw ears of a bull.
(d) Bring her the raw eyes of a bull.

2. What sport does Simone grow to love?
(a) Skiing.
(b) Bullfighting.
(c) Football.
(d) Hiking.

3. Who is supposed to dine with the trio following the bull fight?
(a) Lalanda.
(b) Granero.
(c) La Driesto.
(d) La Rosa.

4. Why does Marcelle think she saw a cardinal of the guillotine outside the wardrobe?
(a) The narrator was wearing a red cap and was smeared with blood.
(b) She was insane.
(c) One of the other guests was wearing a red cap and was smeared with blood.
(d) Simone was wearing a red cap and was smeared with blood.

5. What happens to Simone's sexual cravings?
(a) They become loving and tender.
(b) They become non-existent.
(c) They become more violent.
(d) They become less exciting.

6. What does Simone compare to urine?
(a) Lightening.
(b) A gunshot.
(c) A fire.
(d) Plants.

7. What is the couple forced to do to leave the area?
(a) Walk home.
(b) Hide in a train car.
(c) Ride their bicycles naked.
(d) Steal clothing.

8. Who kills the first bull of the fight?
(a) Granero.
(b) La Driesto.
(c) Lalanda.
(d) La Rosa.

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

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

11. How would the narrator start again with Marcelle?
(a) By raping her.
(b) By caressing her.
(c) By dunking her hair in a toilet.
(d) By killing her.

12. Who delivers the eggs to the room?
(a) Simone's mother.
(b) Servants.
(c) Sir Edmond.
(d) The maid.

13. What does the narrator compare the peeled bull testicles to?
(a) A human testicle.
(b) The white of a cloud in the sky.
(c) A hard boiled egg.
(d) The globe of an eye.

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

15. What does the narrator think when he first reaches Simone?
(a) That she is asleep.
(b) That she is dead.
(c) That she is tired.
(d) That she has a broken ankle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator imagine he will do with the rest of his life?

2. Where do the narrator and Simone make love at the bullfight?

3. What does the narrator do for Simone during their first stop?

4. What does the narrator note Marcelle has become?

5. What does Simone do once Marcelle is free?

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