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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 hospital, what is David treated for?
(a) Knife wounds.
(b) Gun wounds.
(c) Trauma.
(d) Burns.
2. How many times has David Lurie been married?
(a) Once.
(b) Three times.
(c) Four times.
(d) Twice.
3. Chapter 9 opens with David watching television. What is he watching?
(a) Cricket.
(b) A soccer match.
(c) Baseball.
(d) A wrestling match.
4. What is the mood in the car after Lucy and David spend the day at the local market?
(a) Comforting.
(b) Argumentative and blaming.
(c) Tearful silence.
(d) Strained silence.
5. At the beginning of Chapter 4, when Melanie and David are intimate, she questions him about Amanda. Who is Amanda?
(a) Another student.
(b) David's daughter.
(c) David's second wife.
(d) David's first wife.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does David prepare for dinner?
2. Who is Ettinger who appears at the beginning of Chapter 12?
3. When David decides to get a lawyer, who does he contact?
4. When David first walks into the hearing, what is the word that best describes his feeling toward the proceedings?
5. Who is Lara that is mentioned in the context of David's class?
Short Essay Questions
1. Why is it important to David that Lucy is as he puts it a "woman of passion?"
2. Of what significance is it that Soraya wiped off her makeup so readily when David asked her to?
3. What does Bev's acceptance of David, even after he tells her of his forced resignation, suggest about her?
4. What does David's lecture on Wordsworth reveal about him? What is the ironic about the content of his lecture?
5. In what way might Lucy's concern for flowers and animals be representative of an archetypal figure in literature?
6. After David has resigned, how does Lucy treat the prospect of her father staying with her indefinitely?
7. In Chapter 12, why is David amazed that Bill Shaw comes to the hospital to pick him up after his burns are treated?
8. When Melanie is with David in his daughter's room, why might Melanie have such an interest in David's previous sexual conquests?
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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