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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. 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?
(a) Books.
(b) Women.
(c) Wine.
(d) Broken hearts.

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

3. Who is it that recommends that David be dismissed immediately and that he forfeit all benefits?
(a) Aram Hakim.
(b) Mathabane.
(c) Melanie's father.
(d) Rassool.

4. What is one of the things Lucy does to support herself?
(a) She raises chickens.
(b) She boards dogs.
(c) She grows organic vegatables to sell.
(d) She raises goats.

5. What word most accurately describes Soraya's profession?
(a) Provost.
(b) Prostitute.
(c) Professor.
(d) Architect.

Short Answer Questions

1. Except for the course in Romantic poets, what is the general academic area of the courses that David teaches?

2. Who is Melanie Issacs?

3. When David comments to himself on Lucy's wit, to whose wit does he compare it?

4. At the end of the Chapter 11, where does Lucy begin to walk to?

5. When David and Lucy go for a walk, what does Lucy suggest that David should do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it about Soraya's character does David find appealing?

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

3. What might one make of David's abundance of notes on Byron rather than recognizing that the "two fat files" of notes might be enough to begin writing?

4. When David meets with his ex-wife Rosalind, how does she treat the news that David is accused of harassing a student?

5. How does David's opinion of Bev Shaw diminish what one might expect of someone who is a college professor?

6. Of what significance is it that Soraya wiped off her makeup so readily when David asked her to?

7. When David is lecturing in Chapter 3, the thoughts he imagines his students having are in italics: "What is he talking about? What does this old man know about love?" What does this awareness reveal about him?

8. When David puts on soft music and offers wine, he describes this as a ritual. What is this a ritual for?

9. What does it mean when Ms. Rassool says that they, the committee, may have a duty to protect David from himself?

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

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