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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 attending the bull fight?

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

3. What did Yvonne dream of becoming when she was a child?

4. Where do the animals ride on the bus that Yvonne, Hugh, and the consul take together?

5. Where does the consul plan to meet Hugh and Yvonne after all three have been at Laruelle's house?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the consul ultimately die?

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

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

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

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

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

7. How does Yvonne ultimately die?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Analyze three of the consul's hallucinations and discuss 1) what each shows the reader about the consul's declining health as well as 2) at least one literary device Lowry uses in each hallucinatory episode to convey what is happening, in the consul's mind, to the reader.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the characters of Yvonne and the whore with whom the consul sleeps right before his death. What message is Lowry trying to convey through these two characters?

Essay Topic 3

Does Yvonne die a happy or unhappy woman? Make sure to use direct evidence from the text to support your argument.

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