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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 want to do with the testicles?
(a) Eat them.
(b) Sit in the dish of them.
(c) Hold them in her hands.
(d) Throw them.

2. What does Simone do following her violent spasms?
(a) Stares into space.
(b) Cuddles with the narrator.
(c) Cuddles with Sir Edmond.
(d) Falls asleep.

3. What happens when the narrator first tries to kiss Marcelle?
(a) She ignore him.
(b) She flinches.
(c) She verbally refuses.
(d) She kisses him in return.

4. What does Simone compare to urine?
(a) A fire.
(b) A gunshot.
(c) Plants.
(d) Lightening.

5. What stories does the narrator read aloud to Simone?
(a) Stories of disease.
(b) Stories of crime and violence.
(c) Love stories.
(d) Stories of wealth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator say is the outcome of his erection?

2. What does Sir Edmond tell Simone is a vile tradition of bullfighting?

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

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

5. What does the couple plan to do concerning Marcelle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What tradition does Sir Edmond tell Simone of, and what is her response?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Based on the narrator's claims at the end of Chapter 6, what does the episode with eggs indicate about the future of the characters?

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