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

2. What does Simone begin with in her egg obsession?
(a) Placing uncooked eggs in the toilet.
(b) Placing hard boiled eggs in the toilet.
(c) Eating raw eggs.
(d) Breaking eggs on the wall.

3. What is noted about Granero's body at the end of Chapter 11?
(a) His chest is exposed.
(b) His right eye is hanging out.
(c) His head has been removed.
(d) His penis is erect.

4. Who delivers the eggs to the room?
(a) Servants.
(b) Simone's mother.
(c) The maid.
(d) Sir Edmond.

5. What does the couple discuss concerning eggs at the beginning of Chapter 7?
(a) Their beauty.
(b) Their sexual powers.
(c) Their similarity to eyes.
(d) Nothing, as they never speak of their obsessions.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simone imagine the narrator doing to her breasts?

2. What does Simone do with the first bull testicle?

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

4. After the first stop, why is the narrator agitated?

5. What does Simone propose she will do with the eggs?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Explain why Simone and the narrator do not speak of eggs, or of any other portion of their unusual sexual relationship.

7. Describe the narrator's thoughts about Marcelle as the couple rides home from the sanitarium in Chapter 5.

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

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

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

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