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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who is Elaine Winter?
2. What is David's daughter's name?
3. When David and Lucy go for a walk, what does Lucy suggest that David should do?
4. When David decides to get a lawyer, who does he contact?
5. In Chapter 10, when David goes to the animal clinic to help Bev, how does he assist?
Short Essay Questions
1. After David has resigned, how does Lucy treat the prospect of her father staying with her indefinitely?
2. When David puts on soft music and offers wine, he describes this as a ritual. What is this a ritual for?
3. In what way might Lucy's concern for flowers and animals be representative of an archetypal figure in literature?
4. After David spends the day working with Bev Shaw at the animal clinic, what is his estimation of her and her role in the community?
5. When David is lecturing in Chapter 3, the thoughts he imagines his students having are in italics: "What is he talking about? What does this old man know about love?" What does this awareness reveal about him?
6. Interpret the last sentence of the chapter, "A shadow of envy passes over him for the husband he has never seen."
7. When Melanie's father calls David, how does David respond to Melanie's father's request for help?
8. What does David's lecture on Wordsworth reveal about him? What is the ironic about the content of his lecture?
9. How does Melanie's cousin Pauline treat David over the telephone when he calls for Melanie?
10. When David first learns of the charge of harassment, what is his estimation of Melanie's active part in the charge?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chapter 15. What role do the treatment of animals, both dogs and sheep, play in David's transformation?
Essay Topic 2
Soraya wants David out of her life and yet he says he admires her. What does David's admiration of Soraya suggest about him? Is he idolizing her? Does he ignore her treatment of him or does he see something beyond her warnings to never see her again?
Essay Topic 3
Chapter 21. The memories triggered by watching Melanie's play are insightful. They are, very much his version of events and of women. Nonetheless, how does this reverie work to define David and what is important to him?
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