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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 is it that David tells Rosalind he is working on when she asks him if he will look for another job?
(a) A book of poetry
(b) An opera.
(c) A book of critical essays.
(d) Starting a clinic for sick dogs in Cape Town.

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

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

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

5. In what town does the Isaac family live?
(a) Bathe.
(b) Cape Town.
(c) George.
(d) Whitinsville.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who calls David to say that his car has been found?

2. After the police visit the farm, why does David spend the morning digging a large hole?

3. What is Mr. Isaac's occupation?

4. Why does David disagree with Lucy's wanting to leave the event?

5. What does David ask Mr. Isaac for?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

5. What is there about Lucy's description of her rape that she thinks that David cannot before this have understood?

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. How might Lucy's and David's switching of bedrooms be construed as symbolic of some other switch between them?

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. 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?

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

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