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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. How is David able to locate Soraya after she apparently discontinues their relationship?
(a) He gets information from her employer.
(b) She finally calls him.
(c) He contracts a private investigator.
(d) He follows her.

2. At the end of the Chapter 2, what is the word that best describes the way in which Melanie decides she must go?
(a) Coyly.
(b) Detached.
(c) Sorrowfully.
(d) Abruptly.

3. What is one piece of advice that the lawyer gives David?
(a) Assert that he and Melanie are in love and have plans to marry.
(b) Assert that his and Melanie's relationship was consentual.
(c) Aim for a settlement.
(d) Deny everything.

4. At the beginning of Chapter 3, when David calls Melanie, what kind of date does her ask her for?
(a) Lunch.
(b) A walk in a park.
(c) Dinner.
(d) The theater.

5. Who is Petrus?
(a) Lucy's helper with the gardening.
(b) Lucy's cat.
(c) A woman who lives in Lucy's house.
(d) Lucy's neighbor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Melanie Issacs?

2. Who is the poet that David discusses in Chapter 4?

3. Who is Manas Mathabane?

4. On the night after David's day at the clinic, what is the troubling thought that David cannot shake?

5. When David accidentally sees Soraya on a day other than when they usually meet, how do they react?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do David's literary references in Chapter 1 suggest about him?

2. What does David's lecture on Wordsworth reveal about him? What is the ironic about the content of his lecture?

3. When Lucy asks why David isn't trying to justify his actions at the university, what reason does he offer?

4. When Melanie's father calls David, how does David respond to Melanie's father's request for help?

5. At David's hearing, what are the two charges to which he pleads guilty?

6. Interpret the last sentence of the chapter, "A shadow of envy passes over him for the husband he has never seen."

7. In what way might Lucy's concern for flowers and animals be representative of an archetypal figure in literature?

8. Although David ultimately agrees to volunteer to work for Bev Shaw, what is his first reason for not wanting to work as a volunteer?

9. When Melanie's boyfriend is in the class, the other students are even quieter than they usually are. How might one interpret this silence?

10. What is David's reaction to Lucy's determination to go back to her farm?

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