1. Geoffrey Firmin and Jacques Laruelle first met
(a) at the film Las Manos de Orlac
(b) when they were teenagers
(c) at the Red Cross Ball
(d) in Paris
2. Geoffrey and Hugh's father
(a) was an alcoholic
(b) was killed in World War I
(c) was in the Merchant Marine
(d) disappeared in the Himalayas
3. Hugh entered Mexico
(a) disguised as a cowboy
(b) to meet Yvonne
(c) on a cattle truck
(d) to raise money for the Spanish Civil War
4. What was Yvonne's area of study at the University of Hawaii?
(a) English
(b) astronomy
(c) theatre
(d) history
5. What book did Jacques Laruelle borrow from the Consul?
(a) Elizabethan plays
(b) Jacobean plays
(c) Mexican history
(d) a book on the Cabbala
6. As a young man, Hugh sailed to the Orient on the
(a) Samaritan
(b) Philoctetes
(c) Oedipus Tyrannus
(d) Pennsylvania
7. Yvonne's maiden name was
(a) Constable
(b) Griffaton
(c) Maitland
(d) Miki
8. The bus Geoffrey, Yvonne, and Hugh take to Tomalin is a
(a) 1928 Ford
(b) 1918 Chevrolet
(c) 1932 Chevrolet
(d) 1920 Dodge
9. Geoffrey and Yvonne's cats are named
(a) Coxcox and Noah
(b) Yesod and Tartarus
(c) Quixote and Cortez
(d) Oedipus and Pathos
10. The horse that reappears throughout the novel is branded with number
(a) 2
(b) 5
(c) 7
(d) 12
11. Zacuali is
(a) a type of Mexican squash
(b) an Olmec god
(c) an alcoholic drink
(d) Jacques Laruelle's house
12. Yvonne and Geoffrey were married in
(a) England
(b) Spain
(c) United States
(d) France
13. When "rescued" by an English tourist on the Calle Nicaragua, the Consul is offered a drink of
(a) Johnny Walker scotch
(b) tequila
(c) brandy
(d) Burke's Irish whiskey
14. In the excusado at the Salon Ofelia, the Consul
(a) reads an old letter fron Yvonne
(b) is almost stung by a scorpion
(c) reads a tourist folder on Tlaxcala
(d) is sick
15. At the Hotel y Restaurante El Popo when looking for the Consul, Hugh
(a) buys a guitar
(b) gets into an argument with another patron
(c) sees a woman playing dominoes with a chicken
(d) buys a hat for Yvonne
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