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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 narrator do when he lays with Simone on the beach?
(a) Removes his clothing.
(b) Cries.
(c) Shoots her.
(d) Removes her clothing.

2. What do the girls do to entice the boys at the event in Chapter 2?
(a) Strip.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Dance.
(d) Sing.

3. Who joins the couple in the latter part of Chapter 1?
(a) Marcelle.
(b) Sir Edmond.
(c) Simone's mother.
(d) The narrator's mother.

4. Who was the woman the narrator saw come out of the building?
(a) Marcelle.
(b) Simone.
(c) His mother.
(d) A guard.

5. What is served at the event in Chapter 2?
(a) Wine.
(b) Beer.
(c) Champagne.
(d) Tea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What effect does the startling event at the beginning of Chapter 4 have on Simone?

2. How many other boys attend the event?

3. Why does Simone claim she removed her clothing?

4. What does the narrator note is a bizarre feeling as he runs?

5. What color hair does Marcelle have?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain what happens to Marcelle in Chapter 1.

2. How do the parents find out about the orgy, and what do the parents do when they discover what has occurred?

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

4. In Chapter 3, the narrator contemplates suicide. Explain why, and what happens to change his mind.

5. What does the narrator explain causes his and Simone's sexual dream to turn in to a nightmare?

6. Explain the narrator's trip through the sanitarium.

7. Explain what the narrator thinks as he chases down the unknown naked woman, and the reality of who the woman is.

8. Describe the first meeting in Chapter 3 between Simone and the narrator following the orgy.

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

10. Explain what the narrator does after fleeing the orgy and before seeking Simone.

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