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

2. Which of the following meetings with Melanie does David propose and Melanie agree to?
(a) A movie.
(b) A ride home.
(c) A brunch.
(d) A dinner party.

3. Which person confesses a strong liking for the poetry of Adrienne Rich and Toni Morrison?
(a) Melanie.
(b) Adrienne Rich.
(c) David.
(d) Byron.

4. What is one piece of advice that the Vice Rector of the university gives David?
(a) He suggests that David not get a lawyer because it will make him appear guilty.
(b) He suggests David get a female lawyer.
(c) He suggests David get a male lawyer.
(d) He suggests David act as his own lawyer.

5. Shortly before David's class, who is the unwelcome visitor in his office?
(a) Melanie's father.
(b) Melanie's mother.
(c) Melanie's boyfriend.
(d) Melanie's roommate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Melanie during the hearing?

2. Why is David not paying attention to the sports commentators?

3. On the first meeting of David and Soraya, what was it that David strongly disliked?

4. At the end of the Chapter 2, what is the word that best describes the way in which Melanie decides she must go?

5. What is David's daughter's name?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Why is it important to David that Lucy is as he puts it a "woman of passion?"

6. How do you interpret Melanie's lukewarm acceptance of David Lurie into her flat and into her life?

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

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

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

10. After Melanie's boyfriend confronts David in his office, he comes to class with Melanie. What is his purpose for this visit?

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