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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 happens to Simone toward the end of Chapter 5?
(a) She falls into a river.
(b) She is thrown from her bicycle.
(c) She is hit by a train.
(d) She is hit by a car.

2. What does the narrator admit he cares for in terms of sex?
(a) Pleasurable sex.
(b) Gentle sex.
(c) Dirty sex.
(d) Pure sex.

3. What does the couple plan to do concerning Marcelle?
(a) They plan to kidnap her for ransom.
(b) They plan to kill her.
(c) They plan to free her.
(d) They plan to go see her.

4. What does the narrator call "Astral sperm and heavenly urine"?
(a) The sunset.
(b) The milky way.
(c) The rise of the moon.
(d) The universe.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simone do once Marcelle is free?

2. What do Simone and the narrator fantasize about Marcelle and eggs?

3. What does the narrator admit he kept from the bullfight on May 7th?

4. How is Granero.killed?

5. What does Simone want to do with the testicles?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the scene in the pigsty in Chapter 9, and explain its significance.

2. Explain how the death of Granero occurs, and the result of his death in terms of his eye.

3. What does Marcelle seem to fear most at the end of Chapter 7, and what does the narrator realize this fear relates to?

4. What are the three things that fascinate Simone about bullfights?

5. Explain what happens to Simone as she attempts to masturbate on the bicycle, and the narrator's initial reaction.

6. Describe what Simone begins enjoying doing with eggs at the beginning of Chapter 6.

7. What happens to Marcelle in Chapter 8, and why?

8. In Chapter 6, the author purposefully italicizes the words "wide eyes" and "white eggs". What is the significance of this?

9. Explain how the author notes the change in Marcelle as he describes her actions when Simone and the narrator are freeing her from the sanitarium.

10. Explain the author's comparison between his own life and the crow of a rooster.

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