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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yvonne feel about the item that the mailman brings to Laruelle's house while she is over?

2. How does Yvonne feel when she returns to her home?

3. Whose house do Yvonne and the consul pass on their way home upon her return?

4. What event is supposed to happen the first night Yvonne returns to Quauhnahuac?

5. Where does Yvonne want to go after visiting the consul?

Short Essay Questions

1. What actually happens to Hugh's music career while he was at sea?

2. In Chapter 1, why does a crowd of people suddenly flood out of the theater?

3. Why is the consul sent away and stationed in his useless job in the small Mexican town where the novel takes place?

4. Why is Yvonne returning to Quauhnahuac?

5. What advice does the doctor give the consul at Quincy's house?

6. What mission did the consul complete successfully during his time in the British navy?

7. What does the consul begin to think about Yvonne after her bath?

8. Why does most of the consul's household staff leave him during his estranged wife's absence?

9. What does Laruelle observe about the consul's adoptive family?

10. What does the consul think and say about Yvonne's looks to her?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using direct evidence from the text, 1) discuss the scene you think is most critical in the text and 2) discuss at least three literary devices Lowry uses during this scene.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the characters of Laruelle and the consul.

Essay Topic 3

List three ways that the story of the German soldiers' deaths and the consul's role in them impact the reader's view of the consul as a character before he actually arrives in "Under the Volcano."

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