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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do David and Lucy spend the night after David is treated at the hospital?

2. What is the town in which Lucy lives?

3. When David accidentally sees Soraya on a day other than when they usually meet, how do they react?

4. How many times has David Lurie been married?

5. What is one piece of advice that the Vice Rector of the university gives David?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is it important to David that Lucy is as he puts it a "woman of passion?"

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. When David meets with his ex-wife Rosalind, how does she treat the news that David is accused of harassing a student?

5. When David is lecturing in Chapter 3, the thoughts he imagines his students having are in italics: "What is he talking about? What does this old man know about love?" What does this awareness reveal about him?

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

7. What does David's lecture on Wordsworth reveal about him? What is the ironic about the content of his lecture?

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

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

10. After Melanie's boyfriend confronts David in his office, he comes to class with Melanie. What is his purpose for this visit?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chapter 12. Explain how Lucy's rape altered her personality. Discuss Lucy's remarks about the issue of racism and inherent guilt in South Africa and how this guilt influences her beliefs and actions thus far in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Chapter 16. David cares very much for his daughter, yet repeatedly feels that he ineffective in his goal to help make her life easier. Is he actually ineffective in her eyes or does he just imagine that Lucy sees him this way?

Essay Topic 3

Chapter 20. The energy that David puts into his play waivers as his life situation waivers. How might the energy that he puts to his play in Chapter 20 speak to his emotional state?

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