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

2. What larger charge do the police accuse the consul?

3. What Biblical allusion does the consul use after the trio's bus ride?

4. What do the police kick on top of the consul's dead body?

5. As she and Hugh are chasing the consul, what does she point out always upsets the consul?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Why are the movie posters Yvonne sees during her bus ride significant?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What ultimately kills the consul? Make sure to use direct, specific evidence from the text to support your strongly written thesis.

Essay Topic 2

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

Essay Topic 3

Discuss at least three ways that Lowry's placement of the novel in a foreign country (foreign to the consul, that is) has an impact on the novel.

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