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

2. What does Yvonne do when she gets to the hotel with Hugh and the consul?
(a) Orders room service.
(b) Takes a nap.
(c) Goes swimming.
(d) Takes a shower.

3. Who does the consul have sex with on his way up the mountain?
(a) No one -- this is a trick question.
(b) Yvonne.
(c) A whore.
(d) An old girlfriend.

4. What does Hugh do when he gets to the hotel with Yvonne and the consul?
(a) Goes swimming.
(b) Takes a nap.
(c) Takes a shower.
(d) Orders room service.

5. What insult does Laruelle unintentionally inflict upon Hugh?
(a) He calls him by the wrong name.
(b) He thinks he is a woman.
(c) He thinks he is much younger than he really is.
(d) He thinks he is much older than he really is.

Short Answer Questions

1. What geographical item does Yvonne admire in the distance after the bus ride?

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. How does Yvonne keep herself busy during the bull fight?

4. What do Yvonne, Hugh, and the consul argue about over dinner at the hotel?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What is the real reason why the consul wants to stay at Laruelle's house even though Yvonne wants to leave?

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

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

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

7. How does the consul ultimately die?

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

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

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

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