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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the police kick on top of the consul's dead body?
(a) His wallet.
(b) Some dirt to cover their crime.
(c) A dead dog.
(d) An empty tequila bottle.

2. How does Yvonne feel about attending the bull fight?
(a) She is excited about it.
(b) She has already bet against the bull and can't wait for the fight.
(c) She just wants to go shopping instead.
(d) She doesn't want to.

3. What does Yvonne not want to see at the bull fight?
(a) Poor children.
(b) Fried food.
(c) Her old boyfriend.
(d) Blood.

4. What does Yvonne tell the consul her hopes for them for the future are?
(a) To move away to Canada.
(b) To sail off somewhere in a ship -- she doesn't care where.
(c) To get remarried and try for children in Mexico.
(d) To relocate to Hawaii.

5. What does the consul think about Yvonne as he storms out of the hotel restaurant?
(a) That she has cheated on him with Hugh.
(b) That things are finally looking up with them.
(c) That she is lost from him forever.
(d) That he doesn't love her anymore.

6. What does Hugh do when he gets to the hotel with Yvonne and the consul?
(a) Takes a shower.
(b) Takes a nap.
(c) Goes swimming.
(d) Orders room service.

7. Who drinks mescal at the hotel?
(a) No one -- it is too expensive.
(b) Hugh.
(c) The consul.
(d) Yvonne.

8. What prompts Yvonne to start thinking of her own childhood?
(a) The heat.
(b) A small little girl she sees.
(c) A familiar melody she hears on the wind.
(d) A picture she finds in her wallet.

9. What makes the bull fight so unentertaining?
(a) The bull has clearly been drugged.
(b) There is no music.
(c) The bull refuses to fight.
(d) It is over in fewer than 30 seconds.

10. Where does the bus stop for a bathroom break?
(a) The wilderness.
(b) A McDonald's.
(c) A shopping mall.
(d) A rest stop.

11. What does Yvonne think would prove healing for the consul?
(a) Quiet.
(b) Privacy and quiet.
(c) Privacy.
(d) None of these answers is correct.

12. What geographical item does Yvonne admire in the distance after the bus ride?
(a) A large city and its large buildings.
(b) Volcanoes.
(c) A thunderstorm.
(d) A forest fire that is providing a glow in the night sky.

13. Where do Hugh, Yvonne, and the consul plan to travel by bus?
(a) Canada.
(b) Parian.
(c) America.
(d) Mexico City.

14. Why does Laruelle leave the consul alone in his own home?
(a) Because he is trying to catch him stealing things.
(b) Because he goes to take a shower.
(c) Because he doesn't want him driving home.
(d) Because he has given up on him.

15. What Biblical allusion does the consul use after the trio's bus ride?
(a) The birth of Jesus.
(b) The story of the plagues.
(c) The story of Joshua.
(d) The story of Job.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the police demand of the consul?

2. What is mescal?

3. How many drinks does the consul have during dinner at the hotel?

4. Who does Yvonne think is to blame for the upset at dinner at the hotel?

5. Who gets on the bus when it stops for a bathroom break?

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