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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 small charge do the police accuse the consul of?
(a) Stealing a horse.
(b) Fleeing.
(c) Trying to bribe them.
(d) Tricking the local government into giving him money.

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

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

4. What kinds of people are on the bus that Yvonne, Hugh, and the consul take together?
(a) Only rich people.
(b) All kinds.
(c) Only soldiers and their families.
(d) Only poor people.

5. What kind of person do the police accuse the consul of being?
(a) A fake priest.
(b) A spy for the Spanish government.
(c) A communist.
(d) A woman in disguise.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Hugh and Yvonne find of the consul's to indicate they are on the right path while looking for him?

2. What does the widow lady predict for the consul and Yvonne?

3. What does Lowry describe the train (that the bus passes) as doing during its rest in the landscape?

4. What does the consul imagine seeing while he listens to Hugh and Yvonne at the hotel?

5. How does Hugh react to Yvonne's request to leave Laruelle's home?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Yvonne see the bull as a symbol of?

2. How does the increasingly unfavorable weather influence Yvonne's feeling of foreboding?

3. Why dues Hugh jump into the arena to try to ride the bull?

4. What do Laruelle and Hugh have in common from their childhoods?

5. Why are the movie posters Yvonne sees during her bus ride significant?

6. Why does no one offer to help the man who gets on the bus who has clearly been mugged?

7. How does Yvonne ultimately die?

8. What causes Yvonne and the consul to feel happy and in love again during the bull fight?

9. How does the consul respond to the children who beg him for money after he leaves a cantina?

10. As the consul is having sex with the whore, what are the voices in his head telling him?

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