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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Sir Edmond tell Simone is a vile tradition of bullfighting?
(a) Toreadors eating the roasted eyeballs of a bull.
(b) Toreadors eating the roasted ears.
(c) Toreadors eating the roasted testicles of a bull.
(d) Toreadors eating the roasted tongue of a bull.

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

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) One of the other guests was wearing a red cap and was smeared with blood.
(c) She was insane.
(d) Simone was wearing a red cap and was smeared with blood.

5. What does Simone do once Marcelle is free?
(a) Hugs her warmly.
(b) Ignores her.
(c) Kisses her on the mouth.
(d) Joyfully caresses Marcelle's knees.

6. How does the couple travel to Spain?
(a) They steal a boat.
(b) They walk.
(c) They hide on a boat.
(d) They bribe a captain for a ride.

7. What does Marcelle say to the narrator that first indicates she is mentally unwell?
(a) She notes she is at home.
(b) She tells him she is Simone.
(c) She notes she is in a castle.
(d) She notes they can now get married.

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

9. What does the narrator do for Simone during their first stop?
(a) Causes her to orgasm.
(b) Rubs her muscles.
(c) Carries her.
(d) Kisses her.

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

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

12. What does Sir Edmond do with the blond mannequin?
(a) Makes love to it.
(b) Asks Simone to urinate on it.
(c) Asks Simone to shoot it.
(d) Asks Simone to stab it.

13. What is Simone's favorite part of a bullfight?
(a) When the bullfighter is released.
(b) When the mare drops her bladder.
(c) When the crowd cheers.
(d) When the bull is caged.

14. How does Marcelle die?
(a) She falls from a balcony.
(b) She hangs herself.
(c) Simone shoots her.
(d) She shoots herself.

15. What does the author note is the true meaning of terror?
(a) That it expresses inner sorrow.
(b) That it expresses a deep seeded aversion.
(c) That it expresses inner anger.
(d) That it expresses a violent desire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator think when he first reaches Simone?

2. What does the narrator note is associated in his mind with urine?

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

4. What is noted about Granero's body at the end of Chapter 11?

5. How would the narrator start again with Marcelle?

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