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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do the narrator and Simone not have sex?

2. Where is Marcelle confined?

3. How does the couple travel in Chapter 4?

4. Where does Simone first urinate on the narrator?

5. What does the narrator blame for he and Simone's actions?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the couple see almost immediately after entering the sanitarium grounds, and how do they know this indicates Marcelle is involved?

2. What does Simone develop an urge to do with eggs at the beginning of Chapter 2?

3. What is Simone wearing when the narrator and she first have a sexual experience at the villa?

4. Explain what Marcelle does during the orgy, and once the narrator lets her go.

5. What has happened to Marcelle after the orgy? How does the couple discover what has happened to Marcelle? What do they think of doing to help her?

6. Explain why, despite being modest, Simone and the narrator have the relationship they have?

7. Explain what Simone does with the saucer of milk in the first chapter.

8. What happens when the narrator finds Simone, and what is the accidental result that rises Marcelle from her room?

9. Explain what happens to Marcelle in Chapter 1.

10. Explain the mother's second encounter with the couple in their actions, and her reaction as well as the reaction of the couple.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Word association and thought association is used throughout the novel, both as a visual tool but also as a tool to convey reasons for certain behaviors. Choose one of the topics below, and write a complete analysis of how the word is associated in the novel, and what this association means in terms of the characters and/or the storyline.

1.) Associations with lightning

2.) Associations with urine

3.) Associations with the color red

4.) Associations with the Milky Way

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the characters of Simone and Marcelle. What are their similarities? What are their differences? Why does each character change as they do throughout the novel? What are the motivations for their behaviors? What causes them to go insane? Who is responsible for their downward spirals? Why?

Essay Topic 3

Nature plays a large part in this story, as the narrator often uses the nature surrounding the characters to explain changes in their senses, and to explain some of their behaviors. List at least two examples of when nature is used as a part of the storyline. What were the characters doing? How did nature play a part? What was the situation? What was the end result? How did nature affect the behaviors or actions of the characters?

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