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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 it that David tells Rosalind he is working on when she asks him if he will look for another job?
(a) An opera.
(b) A book of poetry
(c) Starting a clinic for sick dogs in Cape Town.
(d) A book of critical essays.

2. Who is Desiree?
(a) Melanie Isaac's nurse.
(b) Melanie Isaac's mother.
(c) Melanie Isaac's sister.
(d) Melanie Isaac's new roommate.

3. As David and Lucy try to normalize their life back at the farm, what room ultimately becomes Lucy's new room?
(a) Her storage room.
(b) The old dining room.
(c) The room David is staying in.
(d) The old library.

4. When David speaks to Petrus about watching the farm, what place does he mention as a possible place for Lucy to go and get a rest?
(a) Paris.
(b) The sea shore.
(c) Cape Town.
(d) London.

5. In what condition is David's house when he returns to it?
(a) It has been ransacked.
(b) It is pristine.
(c) It is dusty, but otherwise as he left it.
(d) It has been cared for, presumably by Rosalind.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it that Petrus brings up as a "perk" for David?

2. In this attack that David instigates, who comes to the rescue of the recipient of David's attack?

3. On what day of the week do Bev and David load the car with the dead dogs?

4. At the end of the chapter, about whom is it that David responds to Bev, "Yes, I am giving him up?"

5. What do Lucy and her father discuss on their trip back from attempting to reclaim the car?

Short Essay Questions

1. The description of Teresa in the last chapter is, "She wants to be rescued--from the pain, from the summer heat, from the Villa Gamba, from her father's bad temper, from everything." This is about David's fictional character, but fiction is based upon what writers know. Does this description hint at David or Lucy's need for respite?

2. David mentions that he has "never been given to lingering involvements" as he tries to figure out what is driving him to go see Melanie's play. What then motivates him to go?

3. What is one to make of Petrus's lack of reaction to David's accusation that one of the men at his party is the assailant?

4. What does David make of Lucy's claim that she only went to the police after the attack for insurance purposes?

5. How might one interpret Elaine Winter's treatment of David at the grocery store?

6. What is one aspect of Lucy's argument to keep the child that is actually aligned with her early Mother Earth persona?

7. David explodes at Pollux and says to himself, "Swine. . .Teach him a lesson. Show him his place." How do these remarks reveal the racial attitudes David evidently has?

8. Is there a symbolic significance to the characters of his libretto in progress "fading away" and being replaced by the corpses of dogs, his new work?

9. After Lucy is raped and she and David give their report to the police, David asks her why she omitted the fact that she was raped. What reason does she give her father for this omission?

10. In Chapter 16, when David talks with Bev about his fear of Lucy living alone on the farm, he says he was there and knows what Lucy has been through. Bev responds that he was not there for her. How does David react to that claim?

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