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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 urges Petrus to do on this evening?
(a) Call the police.
(b) Introduce him to potential voters.
(c) Take care of the animals.
(d) Ask people to make less noise.

2. Who is Dr. Otto?
(a) The professor who has taken over David's office.
(b) David's new therapist.
(c) Rosalind's therapist.
(d) A doctor who calls David with news of Lucy.

3. What action of Petrus frustrates David as Petrus prepares for the upcoming event.
(a) Petrus neglects the stall at the market and expects David to tend to it.
(b) Petrus neglects to ask how Lucy is.
(c) Petrus neglects the animals.
(d) Petrus neglects his work for Lucy.

4. When David visits Lucy, what news does Lucy offer David when he asks her how she is?
(a) That she is depressed and being treated for depression.
(b) That she has contracted a serious disease.
(c) That she is dieting and plans to lose forty pounds.
(d) That she is pregnant.

5. Once back in town, what does David do to occupy his time?
(a) He works on his play.
(b) He begins to inquire about how to start a dog shelter.
(c) He lurks watching for Melanie.
(d) He begins marathon training.

Short Answer Questions

1. When David returns to the University town, where does he meet with Rosalind?

2. What do Lucy and her father discuss on their trip back from attempting to reclaim the car?

3. When David goes back to the Eastern Cape where Lucy is, what excuse does he make up for being there?

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. What does Lucy omit from her story when she tells the police of the attack?

Short Essay Questions

1. When David brings in his dog to Bev, the description is, "Bearing him in his arms like a lamb. . ." What does this image evoke?

2. What does David make of Lucy's claim that she only went to the police after the attack for insurance purposes?

3. 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?

4. 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?

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

6. What has Lucy's banjo become for David?

7. How is it appropriate that David is awakened by a spitball when he is in the theater?

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

9. Compare or contrast David's explanation of his punishment to Lucy's stance on staying on the farm.

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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