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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 is supposed to dine with the trio following the bull fight?
(a) Granero.
(b) La Rosa.
(c) Lalanda.
(d) La Driesto.
2. What does Simone do with the first bull testicle?
(a) She throws it.
(b) She holds it in her hands.
(c) She places it in her vulva.
(d) She eats it.
3. Who delivers the eggs to the room?
(a) Simone's mother.
(b) Sir Edmond.
(c) Servants.
(d) The maid.
4. What does the narrator believe will happen if he and Simone die?
(a) They will not be mourned.
(b) Nothing.
(c) They will be mourned.
(d) Their imaginary world will fill with stars.
5. How does Marcelle die?
(a) She hangs herself.
(b) She falls from a balcony.
(c) She shoots herself.
(d) Simone shoots her.
Short Answer Questions
1. What feeling does the narrator equate with the moment all three are as calm as death?
2. What does Simone do with the second bull testicle?
3. What does the narrator say is the outcome of his erection?
4. How does the couple get Marcelle's attention?
5. What does the narrator note is associated in his mind with urine?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the sexual fantasy of Simone and the narrator about Marcelle in Chapter 6.
2. Explain the narrator's actions as the couple stops the first time on their journey home from the sanitarium in Chapter 5.
3. Explain the change in Simone following the death of Marcelle.
4. What happens to Marcelle in Chapter 8, and why?
5. Describe the narrator's thoughts about Marcelle as the couple rides home from the sanitarium in Chapter 5.
6. What tradition does Sir Edmond tell Simone of, and what is her response?
7. What are the three things that fascinate Simone about bullfights?
8. Why does the narrator claim he does not care for "normal" pleasures, and why even dirty pleasures have become unsatisfying?
9. In Chapter 6, the author purposefully italicizes the words "wide eyes" and "white eggs". What is the significance of this?
10. Explain why Simone and the narrator do not speak of eggs, or of any other portion of their unusual sexual relationship.
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