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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. Who shaves the consul while Hugh is over?
(a) A servant.
(b) The consul, though he ends up cutting himself quite badly.
(c) Hugh himself.
(d) Yvonne.

2. What was Hugh hoping his music career would bring him?
(a) The approval of his parents.
(b) Lots of women.
(c) All of these answers are correct.
(d) Fame and fortune.

3. Where has Hugh been living while on assignment?
(a) A hospital.
(b) A school.
(c) An American cattle ranch.
(d) An England castle.

4. Where has Hugh returned from when he first meets Yvonne?
(a) The Canadian border.
(b) The Nicaraguan border.
(c) The American border.
(d) The Spanish border.

5. How does the consul remember his childhood?
(a) With terror.
(b) With nostalgia.
(c) With rage.
(d) With neither happiness nor sadness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Yvonne initially seem to bring to the consul's life?

2. When Yvonne, Hugh, and the consul leave the consul's house together, where do they intend to go?

3. Who is Yvonne?

4. What does the consul compare his nerves to when he doesn't have alcohol?

5. Why does the consul briefly consider switching alcohols after he has fallen down?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the consul do when his estranged wife goes to take a bath?

2. What does Yvonne admit to Hugh about her plans for the consul?

3. What does the consul know about any past relationship between Yvonne and Laruelle?

4. What does Hugh hope has happened to his music career while he was at sea?

5. Where is the consul sent to live, as a young boy, after his parents died?

6. What can the consul not forget during the town's festival?

7. Why can the consul not translate the Spanish signs when he is lost in town?

8. What advice does the doctor give the consul at Quincy's house?

9. What does the consul know must happen for him to keep Yvonne?

10. Why does the town doctor refuse to treat the consul?

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