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

2. Who is it that accosts David and has a threatening conversation with David about staying with "his own kind."
(a) Dr. Rajool.
(b) Ryan.
(c) Elaine Winter's husband.
(d) A former female student.

3. As David concludes his walk and is walking back to the farm, who does he physically attack?
(a) A policeman who is there for questioning.
(b) Petrus.
(c) Pollux.
(d) Ryan.

4. When David is back in Cape Town, he calls Bev to find out how Lucy is doing. What question does David ask Bev about Lucy that she evades?
(a) Whether or not Lucy is angry with him.
(b) Whether or not Lucy is on tranquilizers.
(c) Whether or not Lucy is pregnant.
(d) Whether or not Bev trusts Petrus.

5. After the attack, what has happened to the books that David brought for research on his Byron project?
(a) Bev has asked to borrow them.
(b) They are gone and David suspects Petrus has stolen them.
(c) They were burned.
(d) They were in his car that was stolen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the musical instrument that David takes up and composes music on?

2. After Lucy and her father discuss their version of their stories that they told the police, what is it that he is bothered by?

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

4. What literary reference doe David make after his meeting with Bev?

5. As David and Lucy try to normalize their life back at the farm, what room ultimately becomes Lucy's new room?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 read the article in The Herald that reports the story of the assailants and what happened at Lucy's farm, how is his reaction in keeping with his character?

10. 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?

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