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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. Later during the day of this ride back from trying to get David's car, David and Lucy communicate again about their difference of opinion regarding Lucy's staying on the farm. What is their method of communication at this time?
(a) Shouting from room to room.
(b) Letters to each other.
(c) Phone calls.
(d) E-mails.

2. Shortly after Lucy and David arrive at Petrus's event, why does Lucy want to leave?
(a) She feels awkward around Petrus's wife.
(b) She is too depressed to be around people.
(c) She recognizes the rapists are there.
(d) She feels that David is being too forward with women.

3. When David is watching an unaware Lucy, what does the sight of her suggest to him that she is becoming?
(a) An old maid.
(b) A peasant.
(c) A spinster.
(d) A hippie.

4. Who Is Teresa in the most recent version of his play?
(a) A young and beautiful woman.
(b) A vengeful spinster.
(c) A sickly dog.
(d) A middle-aged woman who cares for her father.

5. What is one of the issues that Lucy feels is a motive for the assault on her and her farm?
(a) Racism.
(b) Morals in South Africa.
(c) Sexism.
(d) Poverty.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animals has Petrus brought onto his land as he prepares for the event he will have in the next few days?

2. What borrowed farm equipment does Petrus have on his farm?

3. At the end of the chapter, about whom is it that David responds to Bev, "Yes, I am giving him up?"

4. What kind of car did David have that was stolen on the evening of the attack?

5. What action of Petrus frustrates David as Petrus prepares for the upcoming event.

Short Essay Questions

1. David explodes at Pollux and says to himself, "Swine. . .Teach him a lesson. Show him his place." How do these remarks reveal the racial attitudes David evidently has?

2. Is there a symbolic significance to the characters of his libretto in progress "fading away" and being replaced by the corpses of dogs, his new work?

3. In Chapter 16, when David talks with Bev about his fear of Lucy living alone on the farm, he says he was there and knows what Lucy has been through. Bev responds that he was not there for her. How does David react to that claim?

4. When David brings in his dog to Bev, the description is, "Bearing him in his arms like a lamb. . ." What does this image evoke?

5. How might one interpret Elaine Winter's treatment of David at the grocery store?

6. Is David disappointed in himself by his agreement to meet Bev at the clinic for a tryst?

7. What is there about Lucy's description of her rape that she thinks that David cannot before this have understood?

8. How might Lucy's and David's switching of bedrooms be construed as symbolic of some other switch between them?

9. How is it appropriate that David is awakened by a spitball when he is in the theater?

10. What is ironic about David's suggestion at the end of Chapter 22 that Lucy is as humiliated as a dog?

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