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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. What is one intention of Melanie's that David learns from the phone call that he receives shortly before giving the exam?
(a) Melanie wants to be his teaching assistant.
(b) Melanie wants to file harassment charges against him.
(c) Melanie wants to drop out of school and get a job.
(d) Melanie is ill.

2. How does David intend to use his time while he stays at Lucy's?
(a) He will write.
(b) He will mend fences.
(c) He will help with the animals.
(d) He will help with the garden.

3. As they near their house after their walk, what do Lucy and David hear?
(a) Birds chirping.
(b) Geese honking.
(c) Dogs barking.
(d) Petrus singing.

4. After the hearing, who is it that asks David how the hearing went?
(a) A female reporter.
(b) His ex-wife.
(c) The woman from the Coalition Against Discrimination.
(d) A male reporter.

5. What is David's response to Bev's comment that she can tell he likes animals?
(a) He says he never realized it, but he does in fact like animals.
(b) He says he eats them.
(c) He says that, in fact, he doesn't like animals.
(d) He says he can take them or leave them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does David's daughter live?

2. What is one piece of advice that the Vice Rector of the university gives David?

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

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

5. At the hospital, what is David treated for?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. After David has resigned, how does Lucy treat the prospect of her father staying with her indefinitely?

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

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

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

8. What might David Lurie offer in his defense of his sexual relations with Melanie Isaacs, his student?

9. When Melanie is with David in his daughter's room, why might Melanie have such an interest in David's previous sexual conquests?

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

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