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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 returns to the town where the University is, how long has he been gone?
(a) One month.
(b) Five months.
(c) Three months.
(d) Two months.

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

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

4. As Chapter 15 begins, for what event is Petrus preparing?
(a) A community meeting.
(b) A barnstorming.
(c) A political announcement.
(d) A party.

5. In the article in the local paper about the attack, how is David described?
(a) A "distinguished new gentleman farmer."
(b) A "distinguished professor."
(c) A "distinguished author."
(d) An "elderly father."

Short Answer Questions

1. Shortly after Lucy and David arrive at Petrus's event, why does Lucy want to leave?

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

3. What do Lucy and her father discuss on their trip back from attempting to reclaim the car?

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

5. What is it that David tells Rosalind he is working on when she asks him if he will look for another job?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. 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?

3. How is it appropriate that David is awakened by a spitball when he is in the theater?

4. Compare or contrast David's explanation of his punishment to Lucy's stance on staying on the farm.

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

6. 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?

7. 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?

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

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

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

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