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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 word most accurately describes Soraya's profession?
(a) Professor.
(b) Architect.
(c) Provost.
(d) Prostitute.

2. Who is Helen?
(a) A woman who lives in Lucy's house.
(b) Lucy's cat.
(c) Lucy's neighbor.
(d) Lucy's helper with the gardening.

3. What does Melanie say she hates to do?
(a) Write poetry.
(b) Cook.
(c) Play the piano.
(d) Read.

4. Who is it that recommends that David be dismissed immediately and that he forfeit all benefits?
(a) Melanie's father.
(b) Aram Hakim.
(c) Mathabane.
(d) Rassool.

5. After secretly observing Melanie, how does David follow up in his pursuit of Melanie?
(a) He arrives unexpectedly at her apartment.
(b) He asks her to an expensive restaurant.
(c) He sends her a poem he wrote for her.
(d) He sends her flowers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the mood in the car after Lucy and David spend the day at the local market?

2. Which of the following meetings with Melanie does David propose and Melanie agree to?

3. What is one piece of advice that the lawyer gives David?

4. Who is Melanie Issacs?

5. What is David's daughter's name?

Short Essay Questions

1. When pressed by his colleagues to offer an explanation for his behavior with Melanie, what explanation does David offer?

2. What is it about Soraya's character does David find appealing?

3. After David spends the day working with Bev Shaw at the animal clinic, what is his estimation of her and her role in the community?

4. In Chapter 12, why is David amazed that Bill Shaw comes to the hospital to pick him up after his burns are treated?

5. What do David's literary references in Chapter 1 suggest about him?

6. Of what significance is it that Soraya wiped off her makeup so readily when David asked her to?

7. At David's hearing, what are the two charges to which he pleads guilty?

8. When Melanie's boyfriend is in the class, the other students are even quieter than they usually are. How might one interpret this silence?

9. What does it mean when Ms. Rassool says that they, the committee, may have a duty to protect David from himself?

10. What is David's reaction to Lucy's determination to go back to her farm?

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