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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 see on a sheet in a window?
(a) A urine stain.
(b) Blood.
(c) Vomit.
(d) A flowered pattern.

2. How many other girls attend the event?
(a) None.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Four.

3. What do the couple hit in their car that causes them to reflect on their relationship?
(a) A small child.
(b) A bicyclist.
(c) Another vehicle.
(d) An animal.

4. What does the narrator note he is frightened of?
(a) Ridicule.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Anything sexual.
(d) Religion.

5. What does the couple see when they look up at Marcelle's window?
(a) A guard.
(b) A bullet hole in the glass.
(c) A dove.
(d) Nothing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator forget inside the building?

2. What does the couple do in reaction to being caught in Chapter 2?

3. What object does Simone become obsessed with in Chapter 2?

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

5. What does the couple do throughout the evening that is unusual for them?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the narrator equate sex and violence?

3. How does the narrator explain Marcelle's features as she gazes at the ocean?

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

5. What is Simone wearing when the narrator and she first have a sexual experience at the villa?

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

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

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

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

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

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