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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 is one of the causes for the trio's irritation at the bullfight?
(a) They are hungry.
(b) They don't like the noise.
(c) They are sitting in the bright sun.
(d) They are too cold.

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

3. Where do the narrator and Simone make love at the bullfight?
(a) In the arena.
(b) In the bull pen.
(c) In an outhouse.
(d) In the stands.

4. Why is the narrator unsatisfied with "usual debauchery"?
(a) It is boring.
(b) Because to him, usual debauchery is unambitious.
(c) Because he is vain.
(d) Because to him, usual debauchery is not severe enough.

5. What is Simone's favorite part of a bullfight?
(a) When the mare drops her bladder.
(b) When the crowd cheers.
(c) When the bullfighter is released.
(d) When the bull is caged.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the couple get Marcelle's attention?

2. What does the narrator compare the peeled bull testicles to?

3. What does the narrator note causes the two later in life to interrogate one another with their eyes?

4. What is Marcelle doing at the beginning of Chapter 8?

5. What do the narrator and Simone do next to the corpse?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the sexual fantasy of Simone and the narrator about Marcelle in Chapter 6.

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

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

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

5. Why does the narrator claim the universe seems decent to some, and why they fear lewdness?

6. Explain the narrator's actions as the couple stops the first time on their journey home from the sanitarium in Chapter 5.

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

8. Discuss Simone's episode with the raw bull testicle. Include what happens when she first receives it, and the end result.

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

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

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