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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 does Hugh learn about the food on a ship?
(a) That it is often infested with rats.
(b) That is it much better than he expected.
(c) That it is just awful.
(d) That it is often infested with maggots.

2. What does the doctor advise Laruelle to do when they depart in Chapter 1?
(a) Go out for the evening.
(b) Go to the hospital right away.
(c) Move to a warmer climate.
(d) Take two aspirin and call him in the morning.

3. What does the consul compare his nerves to when he doesn't have alcohol?
(a) A calm ocean.
(b) Dead meat.
(c) An electrical system.
(d) Razor blades.

4. What voices are the consul attempting to run from?
(a) The voices of Yvonne and Hugh, which seem extra loud to him for some reason.
(b) The voices of his children.
(c) The voices of people yelling at him from windows.
(d) The voices in his head.

5. Why did Hugh want to go into music as a career?
(a) Because his father was a famous producer.
(b) Because his mother was a famous Spanish opera singer.
(c) Because his father was a famous musician.
(d) Because he considers himself a musical genius.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is selling the animal that Yvonne wants at the brewery?

2. What does Yvonne do once she arrives back at the consul's house?

3. What interrupts Yvonne and the consul's first conversation upon her return to Quauhnahuac?

4. What is Hugh wearing the first time he sees Yvonne upon her return?

5. What year is it in the novel when the story starts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the consul think is the source of his visions and hallucinations?

2. Why does Hugh feel that his youth is gone?

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

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

5. Why does Hugh feel cheated out of his experience at sea?

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

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

8. Why is the letter significant that the mailman brings, from Yvonne to Laruelle, while Yvonne is there with Hugh and the consul?

9. How does the consul react to Yvonne's arrival?

10. What does the consul begin to think about Yvonne after her bath?

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