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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. As Chapter 15 begins, for what event is Petrus preparing?
2. Where does David cook for himself now that he is reestablished in the town Lucy lives?
3. Who is Katy?
4. When David suggests he will look to poetry to learn how to become a grandfather, who is the poet he has in mind?
5. After the police visit the farm, why does David spend the morning digging a large hole?
Short Essay Questions
1. The description of Teresa in the last chapter is, "She wants to be rescued--from the pain, from the summer heat, from the Villa Gamba, from her father's bad temper, from everything." This is about David's fictional character, but fiction is based upon what writers know. Does this description hint at David or Lucy's need for respite?
2. What does David make of Lucy's claim that she only went to the police after the attack for insurance purposes?
3. 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?
4. 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?
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 David disappointed in himself by his agreement to meet Bev at the clinic for a tryst?
7. David mentions that he has "never been given to lingering involvements" as he tries to figure out what is driving him to go see Melanie's play. What then motivates him to go?
8. What is there about Lucy's description of her rape that she thinks that David cannot before this have understood?
9. What is ironic about David's suggestion at the end of Chapter 22 that Lucy is as humiliated as a dog?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
What is it that brings about the ethical and moral transformation of David in Chapter 14? Is this transformation the result of his experiences and trauma of the violent attack or is he "replacing" the vitality that Lucy lost?
Essay Topic 3
Chapter 15. What role do the treatment of animals, both dogs and sheep, play in David's transformation?
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