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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. Why is Petrus concerned about Lucy's returning to the market?
2. What borrowed farm equipment does Petrus have on his farm?
3. When the fight between David and the other person is over, what does Lucy ask of David?
4. Who is it that accosts David and has a threatening conversation with David about staying with "his own kind."
5. As David concludes his walk and is walking back to the farm, who does he physically attack?
Short Essay Questions
1. David explodes at Pollux and says to himself, "Swine. . .Teach him a lesson. Show him his place." How do these remarks reveal the racial attitudes David evidently has?
2. How is David's remark "If she [Bev] is poor, he is bankrupt," that concludes this chapter revealing?
3. 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?
4. 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?
5. 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?
6. Is David disappointed in himself by his agreement to meet Bev at the clinic for a tryst?
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. What might one make of David missing the ducks and the dogs?
9. Compare or contrast David's explanation of his punishment to Lucy's stance on staying on the farm.
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chapter 24. How can David's bringing his dog to Bev be symbolic of his growth or transformation in this novel?
Essay Topic 2
Chapter 16. How might the party Petrus has be a symbolic event in the story? Might this event crystallize conflict in the story?
Essay Topic 3
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?
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