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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. Once back in town, what does David do to occupy his time?
(a) He lurks watching for Melanie.
(b) He works on his play.
(c) He begins marathon training.
(d) He begins to inquire about how to start a dog shelter.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What appliance does David buy to replace one that has been stolen?

2. What does Mr. Isaac say he will not do for David?

3. When David needs his bandages changed, who changes them?

4. At the end of the chapter, about whom is it that David responds to Bev, "Yes, I am giving him up?"

5. Whom does Dave see at the grocery store who ignores him?

Short Essay Questions

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

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. 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?

4. 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?

5. 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?

6. 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?

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

8. The description of Teresa in the last chapter is, "She wants to be rescued--from the pain, from the summer heat, from the Villa Gamba, from her father's bad temper, from everything." This is about David's fictional character, but fiction is based upon what writers know. Does this description hint at David or Lucy's need for respite?

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

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

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