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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. What does Laruelle comment on in regard to the consul's behavior?

2. What prompts Yvonne to start thinking of her own childhood?

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

4. What kind of atmosphere does the bus have?

5. How has the consul reacted to Yvonne's childhood dreams?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the consul ultimately die?

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

4. In his drunken rage at the hotel restaurant, what does the consul claim about people being involved in his life?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare and contrast the characters of Laruelle and the consul.

Essay Topic 2

Using Laruelle, Yvonne, or the consul as an example, discuss at least three ways that a character's flashbacks to his or her childhood lets the reader understand more about a character. Use direct evidence from the text to support your argument.

Essay Topic 3

What is the reader supposed to assume happens to Hugh? Make sure to use direct evidence from at least three instances in the text that you feel supports your thesis.

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