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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 Biblical allusion does the consul use after the trio's bus ride?
(a) The story of Joshua.
(b) The birth of Jesus.
(c) The story of the plagues.
(d) The story of Job.

2. What reason does the consul give about why they should not leave Laruelle's home so soon after they arrived (as Yvonne proposes)?
(a) Because the food is just too delicious to leave uneaten.
(b) Because he hasn't had time to present them with gifts.
(c) Because he says it would be rude.
(d) Because he hasn't said his hellos.

3. What does the consul read as he continues to head up the mountain after he storms out of his hotel?
(a) The newspaper.
(b) A book of poetry he wrote as a kid.
(c) A letter from Yvonne.
(d) The letter he got that informs him he's been fired.

4. What does the consul think about Yvonne as he storms out of the hotel restaurant?
(a) That things are finally looking up with them.
(b) That she has cheated on him with Hugh.
(c) That he doesn't love her anymore.
(d) That she is lost from him forever.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Yvonne feel about attending the bull fight?

2. What does Yvonne do when she gets to the hotel with Hugh and the consul?

3. How does Hugh react to Yvonne's request to leave Laruelle's home?

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

5. Why does the visitor arrive at Laruelle's house?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. How does Yvonne ultimately die?

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