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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 it that David tells Rosalind he is working on when she asks him if he will look for another job?
(a) A book of critical essays.
(b) An opera.
(c) Starting a clinic for sick dogs in Cape Town.
(d) A book of poetry

2. What is Petrus's position on reporting the young man who Lucy recognized to the police?
(a) The young man is not old enough to go to jail so it is useless to report him.
(b) The young man is emotionally fragile.
(c) The young man will seek revenge.
(d) The young man is innocent.

3. As David concludes his walk and is walking back to the farm, who does he physically attack?
(a) Pollux.
(b) Petrus.
(c) A policeman who is there for questioning.
(d) Ryan.

4. Who Is Teresa in the most recent version of his play?
(a) A young and beautiful woman.
(b) A vengeful spinster.
(c) A middle-aged woman who cares for her father.
(d) A sickly dog.

5. Who does David think of immediately after having been with Bev?
(a) Soraya.
(b) Melanie Isaacs.
(c) Lucy.
(d) Rosalind.

Short Answer Questions

1. When David suggests he will look to poetry to learn how to become a grandfather, who is the poet he has in mind?

2. On what day of the week do Bev and David load the car with the dead dogs?

3. Where does David cook for himself now that he is reestablished in the town Lucy lives?

4. What is one of the issues that Lucy feels is a motive for the assault on her and her farm?

5. Later during the day of this ride back from trying to get David's car, David and Lucy communicate again about their difference of opinion regarding Lucy's staying on the farm. What is their method of communication at this time?

Short Essay Questions

1. When David rhetorically asks, "Against this new Petrus, what chance does Lucy stand?" what is his implied answer?

2. 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?

3. 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?

4. What might one make of David missing the ducks and the dogs?

5. How might Lucy's and David's switching of bedrooms be construed as symbolic of some other switch between them?

6. What is ironic about David's suggestion at the end of Chapter 22 that Lucy is as humiliated as a dog?

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. How is David's remark "If she [Bev] is poor, he is bankrupt," that concludes this chapter revealing?

9. 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?

10. 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?

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