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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 has David told Rosalind is a hobby, but in fact is something that "consumes" him?
(a) His opera.
(b) Tutoring.
(c) Selling vegetables at the market.
(d) His dog.

2. Who is Dr. Otto?
(a) A doctor who calls David with news of Lucy.
(b) The professor who has taken over David's office.
(c) Rosalind's therapist.
(d) David's new therapist.

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

4. At the end of the chapter, about whom is it that David responds to Bev, "Yes, I am giving him up?"
(a) Pollux.
(b) Petrus.
(c) His dog.
(d) Mr. Isaacs.

5. When David visits Lucy, what news does Lucy offer David when he asks her how she is?
(a) That she is depressed and being treated for depression.
(b) That she has contracted a serious disease.
(c) That she is dieting and plans to lose forty pounds.
(d) That she is pregnant.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What is the musical instrument that David takes up and composes music on?

3. Why does David disagree with Lucy's wanting to leave the event?

4. Who is it that compliments Lucy by referring to her as a "forward-looking lady?"

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. How is David's remark "If she [Bev] is poor, he is bankrupt," that concludes this chapter revealing?

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

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. When David read the article in The Herald that reports the story of the assailants and what happened at Lucy's farm, how is his reaction in keeping with his character?

7. Is David disappointed in himself by his agreement to meet Bev at the clinic for a tryst?

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

9. When David brings in his dog to Bev, the description is, "Bearing him in his arms like a lamb. . ." What does this image evoke?

10. 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?

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