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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. Whom does Dave see at the grocery store who ignores him?
2. What has David told Rosalind is a hobby, but in fact is something that "consumes" him?
3. What appliance does David buy to replace one that has been stolen?
4. To whom does David write a letter about the attack on the farm?
5. What kind of car did David have that was stolen on the evening of the attack?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. What has Lucy's banjo become for David?
3. How is David's remark "If she [Bev] is poor, he is bankrupt," that concludes this chapter revealing?
4. When David rhetorically asks, "Against this new Petrus, what chance does Lucy stand?" what is his implied answer?
5. Compare or contrast David's explanation of his punishment to Lucy's stance on staying on the farm.
6. How might one interpret Elaine Winter's treatment of David at the grocery store?
7. 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?
8. Is David disappointed in himself by his agreement to meet Bev at the clinic for a tryst?
9. What might one make of David missing the ducks and the dogs?
10. How might Lucy's and David's switching of bedrooms be construed as symbolic of some other switch between them?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chapter 20. The energy that David puts into his play waivers as his life situation waivers. How might the energy that he puts to his play in Chapter 20 speak to his emotional state?
Essay Topic 2
Chapter 19. David comments that before this, he thought that after a certain age, it wasn't possible to learn lessons. How is this decision at odds with David's comments at his hearing regarding his involvement with Melanie?
Essay Topic 3
At the end of Chapter 5, David reads a report of his indiscretion in the local paper. When the piece mentions that David has written a book on the "nature poet, William Wordsworth," David goes off on a tangent and imagines a sort of epitaph that includes, "David Lurie (1945-?), commentator upon, and disgraced disciple of, William Wordsworth. Blest be the infant babe. No outcast he." What can you infer about David's opinion of himself from this self description? What might this descriptor reveal about David's course of action in this ordeal?
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