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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 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) London.
(b) The sea shore.
(c) Cape Town.
(d) Paris.

2. Who is it that compliments Lucy by referring to her as a "forward-looking lady?"
(a) Bill Shaw.
(b) Petrus.
(c) Bev Shaw.
(d) Ettinger.

3. In this attack that David instigates, who comes to the rescue of the recipient of David's attack?
(a) Petrus.
(b) Bev.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Pollux.

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

5. After Lucy and her father discuss their version of their stories that they told the police, what is it that he is bothered by?
(a) That she omitted what happened personally to her when she was alone with the men.
(b) That Lucy told the police that she did not want to press charges.
(c) That Lucy never bought insurance for her farm property.
(d) That Lucy was curt when she spoke to the police.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What borrowed farm equipment does Petrus have on his farm?

3. After the attack, what has happened to the books that David brought for research on his Byron project?

4. What is it that David urges Petrus to do on this evening?

5. Which character in the final chapter says, "I am determined to be a good person. You should try to be a good person too?"

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. 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?

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

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