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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 the narrator do when the mother enters the bedroom?
(a) Steps outside.
(b) Sits in his chair.
(c) Steps into the bathroom.
(d) Stands up.

2. How does Marcelle die?
(a) She hangs herself.
(b) She falls from a balcony.
(c) She shoots herself.
(d) Simone shoots her.

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

4. What sport does Simone grow to love?
(a) Football.
(b) Bullfighting.
(c) Skiing.
(d) Hiking.

5. How does the couple travel to Spain?
(a) They walk.
(b) They bribe a captain for a ride.
(c) They steal a boat.
(d) They hide on a boat.

Short Answer Questions

1. With what does the narrator associate the moon?

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

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

4. Where do the narrator and Simone make love at the bullfight?

5. What does the narrator do with Simone?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. Why does the narrator claim he does not care for "normal" pleasures, and why even dirty pleasures have become unsatisfying?

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

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