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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. What does David ask Mr. Isaac for?
2. When David comes to the farm to visit, where does he propose that Lucy go for a rest?
3. Why is Petrus concerned about Lucy's returning to the market?
4. On what day of the week do Bev and David load the car with the dead dogs?
5. When David speaks to Petrus about watching the farm, what place does he mention as a possible place for Lucy to go and get a rest?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. How is it appropriate that David is awakened by a spitball when he is in the theater?
3. What does David's description of Desiree suggest?
4. What is there about Lucy's description of her rape that she thinks that David cannot before this have understood?
5. 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?
6. 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?
7. Is David disappointed in himself by his agreement to meet Bev at the clinic for a tryst?
8. When David rhetorically asks, "Against this new Petrus, what chance does Lucy stand?" what is his implied answer?
9. How might one interpret Elaine Winter's treatment of David at the grocery store?
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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chapter 23. David's life has always included literature. His references to literature are casual and throughout his narrative. They are his way of defining episodes in his life. Why, then, might he have chosen to write an opera instead of a novel? What might this musical form offer him that literature would not?
Essay Topic 2
Examine the parent and child role in Lucy and David's relationship in Chapter 9 & 10. Explore who is taking on the nurturing and care-taking responsibilities and who is being coddled and disciplined. Also explore what role the countryside setting plays in this role-reversed relationship.
Essay Topic 3
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?
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