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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 Simone ask Sir Edmond to do for her?
(a) Bring her the raw ears of a bull.
(b) Bring her the raw tongue of a bull.
(c) Bring her the raw testicles of a bull.
(d) Bring her the raw eyes of a bull.

2. What does the narrator do with Simone?
(a) Kisses her.
(b) Wraps her wounds with a stocking.
(c) Carries her home.
(d) Has sex with her.

3. What does the narrator say is the outcome of his erection?
(a) Death.
(b) Life.
(c) Love.
(d) Sex.

4. Why is Simone agitated at the corpse?
(a) Because Marcelle can no longer feel her.
(b) Because she wants Marcelle alive.
(c) Because she fears death.
(d) Because she doesn't like the position of the body.

5. What does the couple fear will overtake Marcelle?
(a) Despondency.
(b) Fear.
(c) Misery.
(d) Frustration.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. From whom does Marcelle ask the narrator to protect her?

3. What is noted about Granero's body at the end of Chapter 11?

4. What does the narrator say about the time following Simone's accident?

5. What does Simone do following her violent spasms?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the narrator believe is the goal of his own lack of moral discipline?

5. What does the confusion between the cardinal and the narrator on the part of Marcelle seem to show?

6. Why does the narrator claim he believes Simone urinates on the corpse of Marcelle?

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

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

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

10. Explain how Simone and the narrator travel to Spain undetected.

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