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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. Where do the animals ride on the bus that Yvonne, Hugh, and the consul take together?
(a) No animals are allowed anywhere on this bus.
(b) Both inside and outside.
(c) Inside.
(d) Outside.

2. What does Hugh buy as he and Yvonne are searching for the consul?
(a) An armadillo for Yvonne.
(b) A shotglass for the consul.
(c) A guitar.
(d) A necklace.

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

4. Where do the police start following the consul?
(a) After he leaves the brothel.
(b) After he leaves the hotel.
(c) After he gets off the bus.
(d) After he leaves the restaurant.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. As the storm approaches, what does Yvonne claim she would rather do than find her estranged husband?

2. What reason does the consul give about why they should not leave Laruelle's home so soon after they arrived (as Yvonne proposes)?

3. What do the police demand of the consul?

4. Who does Yvonne think is to blame for the upset at dinner at the hotel?

5. What prompts Yvonne to start thinking of her own childhood?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What about Yvonne's letter depresses the consul as he is heading up the mountain?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Yvonne ultimately die?

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