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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. What is the woman's name?
(a) Mary.
(b) Sophie.
(c) Gertrude.
(d) Edith.

2. How does David find Edith's address?
(a) He looks in a phone book.
(b) He calls Sophie.
(c) He asks police.
(d) He asks people on the street.

3. Who does David credit for his escape?
(a) King.
(b) Himself.
(c) God.
(d) Sophie.

4. What does David think should have roused his suspicions?
(a) The stream.
(b) The fence.
(c) The scenery.
(d) The state of the people he saw.

5. Who does David meet inside the church?
(a) A nun.
(b) A priest.
(c) God.
(d) Joseph.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does David ask God to do?

2. Why is the situation actually advantageous for David?

3. What comforts David in Chapter Eight?

4. What does Giovanni respect David for?

5. What does Maria ask David to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does David have such difficulty understanding the young boys he has come to live with?

2. Describe the individuals at the farm.

3. Explain why David asks God to spare King, and kill him instead.

4. Describe how David comes to meet Sophie Hartmann, and describe Sophie.

5. Explain why David doesn't like dogs, and how his friendship with King develops.

6. Explain what happens to King.

7. Why does David stop caring consciously about what happens to him, and how does he manage to keep going?

8. Why does Giovanni's wife want David to leave?

9. Describe the frontier post, and how David managed to avoid it.

10. Explain what David realizes about milk.

(see the answer keys)

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