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

2. How does Hugh react to Yvonne's request to leave Laruelle's home?
(a) He wants to stay.
(b) He slaps her in an attempt to establish his authority.
(c) He ignores her requests.
(d) He wants to accompany her out.

3. How does Yvonne keep herself busy during the bull fight?
(a) She pretends to be fixing her dress.
(b) She pretends to fall and need to go to the doctor.
(c) She works on her stitching.
(d) She powders her nose.

4. What does Yvonne not want to see at the bull fight?
(a) Blood.
(b) Fried food.
(c) Her old boyfriend.
(d) Poor children.

5. What do Hugh and Yvonne find of the consul's to indicate they are on the right path while looking for him?
(a) An empty bottle of his favorite beer.
(b) His glasses.
(c) A receipt.
(d) One of his shoes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hugh buy as he and Yvonne are searching for the consul?

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

3. What insult does Laruelle unintentionally inflict upon Hugh?

4. Where do Hugh and Yvonne keep checking for the consul?

5. Who gets on the bus when it stops for a bathroom break?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Yvonne ultimately die?

3. How does the consul ultimately die?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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