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

2. What does the narrator imagine he will do with the rest of his life?
(a) Devote it to Marcelle.
(b) Devote it to Simone.
(c) Devote it to sexuality.
(d) Devote it to himself

3. What does Simone compare to an egg?
(a) The hand.
(b) The rear.
(c) The eye.
(d) A ball.

4. Why does the couple stop their trip home the first time?
(a) The narrator is tired.
(b) Simone is shivering.
(c) They see an accident.
(d) They see an animal.

5. What does the narrator say about the time following Simone's accident?
(a) It was boring.
(b) It was calm.
(c) It was chaotic.
(d) It was miserable.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the narrator associate the moon?

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

3. How would the narrator start again with Marcelle?

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

5. What does Simone do with the second bull testicle?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. What does Marcelle seem to fear most at the end of Chapter 7, and what does the narrator realize this fear relates to?

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

7. Explain how the author notes the change in Marcelle as he describes her actions when Simone and the narrator are freeing her from the sanitarium.

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

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

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

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