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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. After the police visit the farm, why does David spend the morning digging a large hole?
(a) Lucy wants to bury everything the men touched.
(b) David is going to bury the dogs there.
(c) Lucy wants to plant a tree.
(d) David wants to plant a tree.

2. At the meeting between Rosalind and David, something about his appearance makes her "shudder." What is it?
(a) His scruffy beard.
(b) His worn-out shoes.
(c) His misshapen ear.
(d) His fingernails.

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

4. What is Mr. Isaac's occupation?
(a) A math teacher.
(b) A history teacher.
(c) A school principal.
(d) A guidance counselor.

5. What borrowed farm equipment does Petrus have on his farm?
(a) A scythe.
(b) A tractor.
(c) A wagon.
(d) A harvester.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who it that insists to David that Petrus is a good man?

2. When David is watching an unaware Lucy, what does the sight of her suggest to him that she is becoming?

3. Who is it that accosts David and has a threatening conversation with David about staying with "his own kind."

4. Why is Petrus concerned about Lucy's returning to the market?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. 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?

9. 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?

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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