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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 event is supposed to happen the first night Yvonne returns to Quauhnahuac?
(a) A midnight church service.
(b) A festival.
(c) A sacrifice.
(d) A lunar eclipse.

2. How long has Yvonne been gone before she returns to Quauhnahuac?
(a) Five years.
(b) One year.
(c) One month.
(d) Five months.

3. What have both Hugh and Yvonne been doing over the past year?
(a) Trying to plot against the consul.
(b) Falling in love with someone else.
(c) Running from the law.
(d) Traveling.

4. What does the mailman bring to Laruelle's house while Yvonne, Hugh, and the consul are visiting?
(a) A letter letting Yvonne know that her mother has died.
(b) A letter Yvonne wrote over a year ago.
(c) A notice that the consul has been fired.
(d) News that the government has been overthrown.

5. What large gift does Yvonne bring to the consul upon her return?
(a) This is a trick question -- she doesn't bring him a large gift.
(b) A very large statue of the child that they had that died.
(c) A very large statue of himself in military dress.
(d) A very large statute of herself in a beautiful gown.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Hugh want to go into music as a career?

2. Where does the reader learn, in Chapter 1, that Laruelle is planning to go on a journey?

3. Who shaves the consul while Hugh is over?

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

5. What voices are the consul attempting to run from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Yvonne returning to Quauhnahuac?

2. Why is the consul sent away and stationed in his useless job in the small Mexican town where the novel takes place?

3. What two desires torment the consul?

4. When Yvonne has finally returned to their home, why does the consul initially think that she won't mind his drinking?

5. What plans does Hugh confess to Yvonne during their walk?

6. Why does Hugh not know about the state of the consul's and Yvonne's marriage?

7. Why does most of the consul's household staff leave him during his estranged wife's absence?

8. What mission did the consul complete successfully during his time in the British navy?

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

10. How does Hugh react to Yvonne's plans for her and the consul?

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