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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 couple imagine Marcelle doing at the beginning of Chapter 4?
(a) Orgasming.
(b) Jumping from a window.
(c) Dying in a car accident.
(d) Hanging herself.

2. What color hair does Marcelle have?
(a) Black.
(b) Brown.
(c) Blond.
(d) Red.

3. What effect does the startling event at the beginning of Chapter 4 have on Simone?
(a) She is angry.
(b) She is lonely.
(c) She is frightened.
(d) She is tired.

4. Who is called at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) Parents.
(b) Police.
(c) The servants.
(d) The hospital.

5. Where does the narrator go to find safety after his night in the woods?
(a) Marcelle's house.
(b) His own home.
(c) Simone's house.
(d) Sir Edmond's house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simone do with these objects?

2. Who joins the couple in the latter part of Chapter 1?

3. What does the narrator note caused Simone's extreme orgasm the night of the party?

4. What happened to Simone's clothing?

5. What does Marcelle do when she returns to the room?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Simone develop an urge to do with eggs at the beginning of Chapter 2?

2. Explain why, despite being modest, Simone and the narrator have the relationship they have?

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

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

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

7. What contrasting image does the author give between Simone and Marcelle at the end of Chapter 4? What else could this comparison represent?

8. How does the narrator equate sex and violence?

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

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

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