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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 it that accosts David and has a threatening conversation with David about staying with "his own kind."
2. After this evening conversation, when does Bev call David?
3. As David and Lucy try to normalize their life back at the farm, what room ultimately becomes Lucy's new room?
4. Who it that insists to David that Petrus is a good man?
5. Who does David think of immediately after having been with Bev?
Short Essay Questions
1. How might one interpret Elaine Winter's treatment of David at the grocery store?
2. Is David disappointed in himself by his agreement to meet Bev at the clinic for a tryst?
3. What might one make of David missing the ducks and the dogs?
4. When David rhetorically asks, "Against this new Petrus, what chance does Lucy stand?" what is his implied answer?
5. 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?
6. What is one aspect of Lucy's argument to keep the child that is actually aligned with her early Mother Earth persona?
7. 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?
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. How is David's remark "If she [Bev] is poor, he is bankrupt," that concludes this chapter revealing?
10. What is ironic about David's suggestion at the end of Chapter 22 that Lucy is as humiliated as a dog?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Chapter 12. Explain how Lucy's rape altered her personality. Discuss Lucy's remarks about the issue of racism and inherent guilt in South Africa and how this guilt influences her beliefs and actions thus far in the novel.
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