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

2. What does Marcelle say to the narrator that first indicates she is mentally unwell?
(a) She notes they can now get married.
(b) She notes she is at home.
(c) She notes she is in a castle.
(d) She tells him she is Simone.

3. What does Simone do once Marcelle is free?
(a) Joyfully caresses Marcelle's knees.
(b) Kisses her on the mouth.
(c) Hugs her warmly.
(d) Ignores her.

4. What does Simone compare to the smell of the anus?
(a) A pancake.
(b) Fried eggs.
(c) The powder of a gun.
(d) A flower.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Simone compare to urine?

2. What does the narrator do with Simone?

3. What does Simone want to do with the testicles?

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

5. What does Simone do while Granero is being killed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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