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

2. What makes Yvonne fall (the first time) while searching for the consul in the storm?
(a) Slippery rocks.
(b) A broken ankle.
(c) A trap he set for her.
(d) A rat she steps on.

3. What kind of feeling does Yvonne have while searching for the consul in the storm?
(a) One of great luck.
(b) One of foreboding.
(c) One of peace and calm.
(d) One of extreme joy.

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

5. What do the police demand from the consul when they confront him?
(a) More money for his time with the whore.
(b) Both of these answers are correct.
(c) None of these answers is correct.
(d) More money for his drinks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the consul claim had the right to die?

2. What does Hugh try to do to the trio's dynamics during the bus ride?

3. In his internal dialogue, to what does the consul compare staying at Laruelle's home?

4. Who does the consul have sex with on his way up the mountain?

5. What does Yvonne think would prove healing for the consul?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the consul's desire for the sun not to set foreshadow?

3. What does Laruelle point out to the consul about why his lack of excitement about Yvonne's return is ironic?

4. As he reflects on his life at the hotel, what does the consul think about his happiness?

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

6. Why is Yvonne really in such a hurry to leave Laruelle's home?

7. Why does the consul fail to understand why Yvonne and Hugh get so upset during dinner?

8. What does Yvonne experience as she falls/dying?

9. Why does the consul want the sun to stand still after the bus ride he takes with Yvonne and Hugh?

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

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