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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Lara that is mentioned in the context of David's class?
(a) The woman is a poem.
(b) The unwelcome visitor.
(c) Another student.
(d) Amanda's friend.

2. What is the setting of the play that Melanie is in?
(a) Coventry.
(b) London.
(c) South Africa.
(d) Ireland.

3. Where is Melanie during the hearing?
(a) Absent from it.
(b) Sitting between her parents.
(c) Sitting across the table from David.
(d) Sitting with her father.

4. Shortly before David's class, who is the unwelcome visitor in his office?
(a) Melanie's roommate.
(b) Melanie's father.
(c) Melanie's boyfriend.
(d) Melanie's mother.

5. Except for the course in Romantic poets, what is the general academic area of the courses that David teaches?
(a) Novels.
(b) History.
(c) World Languages.
(d) Communications.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is David Lurie employed?

2. What does Melanie say she will do for David when she gets to know him better?

3. Which description most accurately describes the clothing of the unwelcome visitor in David's office?

4. At the beginning of the Chapter 4, when Melanie and David are intimate, she also questions him about the things he collects. What is it that David says that he does not collect?

5. How is David able to locate Soraya after she apparently discontinues their relationship?

(see the answer key)

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