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

2. Which member of the visiting trio stays behind at Laruelle's home?
(a) Yvonne.
(b) The consul.
(c) Hugh.
(d) All of these answers is correct.

3. As she and Hugh are chasing the consul, what does she point out always upsets the consul?
(a) Bad waitresses.
(b) Her perfume.
(c) Religion.
(d) Something.

4. What makes the bull fight so unentertaining?
(a) The bull has clearly been drugged.
(b) The bull refuses to fight.
(c) There is no music.
(d) It is over in fewer than 30 seconds.

5. What does Yvonne think would prove healing for the consul?
(a) None of these answers is correct.
(b) Privacy and quiet.
(c) Privacy.
(d) Quiet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lowry describe the train (that the bus passes) as doing during its rest in the landscape?

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

3. What does Yvonne not want to see at the bull fight?

4. What does Yvonne notice during the bus ride with the consul and Hugh?

5. What does the consul imagine seeing while he listens to Hugh and Yvonne at the hotel?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Why does no one offer to help the man who gets on the bus who has clearly been mugged?

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

6. Why do the police accuse the consul of being a communist?

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

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

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

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

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