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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. Who catches the couple in the parlor in the beginning of Chapter 2?
(a) Sir Edmond.
(b) Simone's mother.
(c) Simone's father.
(d) Marcelle.

2. What does the narrator threaten in a note to his mother?
(a) To run away.
(b) Disclosure of family secrets.
(c) Suicide.
(d) To turn his brother in.

3. What causes the narrator to have a violent orgasm?
(a) Simone.
(b) A combination of Simone, the storm, and the gun.
(c) The gun.
(d) The storm.

4. How does the couple travel in Chapter 4?
(a) By car.
(b) By train.
(c) Walking.
(d) By bicycle.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What item does the narrator take from his parents' home?

2. What does the narrator do shortly upon entering?

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

4. How does the narrator access the inside of the building?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator equate sex and violence?

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

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

4. What happens when the narrator finds Simone, and what is the accidental result that rises Marcelle from her room?

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

6. How does the narrator avoid police capture in Chapter 3 and how is this possible?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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