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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) A book of critical essays.
(b) An opera.
(c) Starting a clinic for sick dogs in Cape Town.
(d) A book of poetry

2. Who or what is it that particularly enjoys David's new past time?
(a) David's new assistant.
(b) Bev.
(c) Petrus.
(d) David's dog.

3. Shortly after Lucy and David arrive at Petrus's event, why does Lucy want to leave?
(a) She is too depressed to be around people.
(b) She feels that David is being too forward with women.
(c) She feels awkward around Petrus's wife.
(d) She recognizes the rapists are there.

4. In what town does the Isaac family live?
(a) George.
(b) Cape Town.
(c) Whitinsville.
(d) Bathe.

5. To what does Mr. Isaac invite David?
(a) Dinner.
(b) A class.
(c) A recruiting seminar.
(d) A meeting.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Lucy and her father discuss their version of their stories that they told the police, what is it that he is bothered by?

2. What is the purpose of Bev's telephone call to David?

3. When David returns to town, where does he see Melanie?

4. What is Mr. Isaac's occupation?

5. What action of Petrus frustrates David as Petrus prepares for the upcoming event.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is there about Lucy's description of her rape that she thinks that David cannot before this have understood?

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

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

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

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

9. 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?

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

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