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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is it that David urges Petrus to do on this evening?
(a) Take care of the animals.
(b) Introduce him to potential voters.
(c) Call the police.
(d) Ask people to make less noise.

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

3. Once back in town, what does David do to occupy his time?
(a) He begins marathon training.
(b) He works on his play.
(c) He begins to inquire about how to start a dog shelter.
(d) He lurks watching for Melanie.

4. After the police visit the farm, why does David spend the morning digging a large hole?
(a) Lucy wants to plant a tree.
(b) David is going to bury the dogs there.
(c) David wants to plant a tree.
(d) Lucy wants to bury everything the men touched.

5. What is the purpose of Bev's telephone call to David?
(a) Bev calls to invite David to meet her at the clinic that same day.
(b) Bev calls to invite David to discuss Melanie with her psychiatrist.
(c) Bev calls to invite David to help her at home with Bill.
(d) Bev calls to invite David to discess Petrus in confidence.

6. What animals has Petrus brought onto his land as he prepares for the event he will have in the next few days?
(a) Two lambs.
(b) Two calves.
(c) Two rams.
(d) Two sheep.

7. What is it that Petrus brings up as a "perk" for David?
(a) David will get money for his car from the insurance claim.
(b) David will get insurance money for damages to the farm.
(c) David could get Lucy to come to the city with him.
(d) David could sell the farm to Petrus.

8. What is Mr. Isaac's occupation?
(a) A school principal.
(b) A math teacher.
(c) A history teacher.
(d) A guidance counselor.

9. In what town does the Isaac family live?
(a) Whitinsville.
(b) George.
(c) Bathe.
(d) Cape Town.

10. At the meeting between Rosalind and David, something about his appearance makes her "shudder." What is it?
(a) His fingernails.
(b) His misshapen ear.
(c) His worn-out shoes.
(d) His scruffy beard.

11. As David and Lucy try to normalize their life back at the farm, what room ultimately becomes Lucy's new room?
(a) The old library.
(b) The old dining room.
(c) The room David is staying in.
(d) Her storage room.

12. Several days after the attack on the farm, what does Ettinger offer David?
(a) A gun.
(b) A cow.
(c) A cooked chicken dinner.
(d) A sheep.

13. When David comes to the farm to visit, what proposal does Petrus have for Lucy that he asks David to offer her?
(a) Buying her house and her farm.
(b) Marriage.
(c) Renting her land to farm.
(d) Buying her land.

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

15. When David returns to the University town, where does he meet with Rosalind?
(a) At a coffee shop.
(b) In his office.
(c) At the park.
(d) At her office.

Short Answer Questions

1. After the attack, what has happened to the books that David brought for research on his Byron project?

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

3. It is clear that Bev knows of David's past. About what does she know a great deal?

4. When David visits Lucy, what news does Lucy offer David when he asks her how she is?

5. Who is Katy?

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