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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. When the fight between David and the other person is over, what does Lucy ask of David?
(a) To pack his bags and leave her house.
(b) To go into the house and rest.
(c) To take over for her at the stalls.
(d) To apologize to the person he attacked.

2. When David returns to town, where does he see Melanie?
(a) At a coffee shop.
(b) At the theater.
(c) At a bar.
(d) At the university.

3. What literary reference doe David make after his meeting with Bev?
(a) Emma Bovary.
(b) Lady MacBeth.
(c) Moll Flanders.
(d) Desdemona.

4. What animals has Petrus brought onto his land as he prepares for the event he will have in the next few days?
(a) Two sheep.
(b) Two calves.
(c) Two lambs.
(d) Two rams.

5. When David is watching an unaware Lucy, what does the sight of her suggest to him that she is becoming?
(a) An old maid.
(b) A hippie.
(c) A spinster.
(d) A peasant.

Short Answer Questions

1. When David suggests he will look to poetry to learn how to become a grandfather, who is the poet he has in mind?

2. What does Mr. Isaac say he will not do for David?

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

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?

5. Who is Dr. Otto?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is ironic about David's suggestion at the end of Chapter 22 that Lucy is as humiliated as a dog?

2. Do Petrus's responses to David's rage about the assault seem truly suspicious or might the reader be judging them through David's lens?

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. 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?

5. What might one make of David missing the ducks and the dogs?

6. When David rhetorically asks, "Against this new Petrus, what chance does Lucy stand?" what is his implied answer?

7. 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?

8. What has Lucy's banjo become for David?

9. How is it appropriate that David is awakened by a spitball when he is in the theater?

10. 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?

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