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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 the consul think he sees as the bus passes a park?
(a) His mother.
(b) His father.
(c) The devil.
(d) An angel.

2. Who does the consul claim had the right to die?
(a) Himself.
(b) The man they observed on the bus.
(c) Jesus.
(d) Laruelle.

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

4. What is mescal?
(a) A juice made from a cactus flower.
(b) A water with apparent mystical qualities.
(c) A drink that is supposed to give you a lot of energy.
(d) A local alcoholic beverage.

5. What makes the bull fight so unentertaining?
(a) There is no music.
(b) The bull refuses to fight.
(c) It is over in fewer than 30 seconds.
(d) The bull has clearly been drugged.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which member of the visiting trio stays behind at Laruelle's home?

2. Why do Yvonne and Hugh become upset during dinner?

3. What does Yvonne do when she gets to the hotel with Hugh and the consul?

4. Where do Hugh, Yvonne, and the consul plan to travel by bus?

5. What Biblical allusion does the consul use after the trio's bus ride?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In his drunken rage at the hotel restaurant, what does the consul claim about people being involved in his life?

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

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

7. How do Hugh and Yvonne pass the afternoon at the hotel with the consul?

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

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

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

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