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

2. On what day of the week do Bev and David load the car with the dead dogs?
(a) Wednesday.
(b) Tuesday.
(c) Monday.
(d) Sunday.

3. What do Lucy and her father discuss on their trip back from attempting to reclaim the car?
(a) Lucy's car.
(b) Lucy's debt.
(c) Lucy's stall at the market.
(d) Lucy's rape.

4. What action of Petrus frustrates David as Petrus prepares for the upcoming event.
(a) Petrus neglects the animals.
(b) Petrus neglects his work for Lucy.
(c) Petrus neglects to ask how Lucy is.
(d) Petrus neglects the stall at the market and expects David to tend to it.

5. On the day after the party, with what kind of work does David help Petrus?
(a) Repairing locks.
(b) Repairing windows.
(c) Mending fences.
(d) Laying pipe.

Short Answer Questions

1. After this evening conversation, when does Bev call David?

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

3. What does Lucy omit from her story when she tells the police of the attack?

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

5. At the meeting between Rosalind and David, something about his appearance makes her "shudder." What is it?

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

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

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

9. What does David's description of Desiree suggest?

10. 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?

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