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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who convinces David to dismiss his threat after confronting Catherine about showing Marita the manuscript?
(a) Catherine.
(b) Davy.
(c) His publisher.
(d) Marita.

2. What does David threaten when Catherine says she is not sorry for showing Marita the manuscript?
(a) Not to finish the book.
(b) To leave her.
(c) To burn the book.
(d) To take her part out of the book.

3. What does Catherine do while David and Marita are alone and speaking about her?
(a) Sees a doctor.
(b) Drinks some absinthe.
(c) Reads the new story.
(d) Searches Marita's room.

4. What does David do with Marita once he stops writing on the first day he tries to write after his stories have been burned?
(a) Makes love.
(b) Goes for a drive.
(c) Eats dinner.
(d) Goes swimming.

5. How does Catherine get keys to David's workroom?
(a) She findsa them in his shorts.
(b) She hires a locksmith.
(c) She enters through Marita's room.
(d) She finds a spare.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what room is David when he wakes up in the last chapter?

2. Where does David want Catherine to see a doctor?

3. How does David's writing flow in the last chapter?

4. What does David say he wants to do after seeing what Catherine has done to his African stories?

5. Which story does David rewrite in the last chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does David do at the beginning of Chapter 29?

2. What does Catherine do when she reads the David's first short story?

3. What happens when Davy, his father, and Juma finally catch sight of the elephant?

4. What does Davy think as the elephant dies?

5. What does David want to talk to his father about, and why?

6. What does Catherine say to David about his clippings when they are on the beach, and what has she done with them?

7. What makes it easier for David to write the African stories the second time?

8. Where does David meet Catherine and Marita in Chapter 23, and how do they look when he gets there?

9. What does David think about while Madame makes him a meal while he is alone in the house?

10. How does Davy feel when he is shown the skeleton of the female elephant?

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