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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. What is one of the issues that Lucy feels is a motive for the assault on her and her farm?
2. As David and Lucy try to normalize their life back at the farm, what room ultimately becomes Lucy's new room?
3. To what does Mr. Isaac invite David?
4. In this attack that David instigates, who comes to the rescue of the recipient of David's attack?
5. Who or what is it that particularly enjoys David's new past time?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. When David read the article in The Herald that reports the story of the assailants and what happened at Lucy's farm, how is his reaction in keeping with his character?
3. How is David's remark "If she [Bev] is poor, he is bankrupt," that concludes this chapter revealing?
4. What might one make of David missing the ducks and the dogs?
5. Compare or contrast David's explanation of his punishment to Lucy's stance on staying on the farm.
6. What does David's description of Desiree suggest?
7. The description of Teresa in the last chapter is, "She wants to be rescued--from the pain, from the summer heat, from the Villa Gamba, from her father's bad temper, from everything." This is about David's fictional character, but fiction is based upon what writers know. Does this description hint at David or Lucy's need for respite?
8. 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?
9. 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?
10. What is ironic about David's suggestion at the end of Chapter 22 that Lucy is as humiliated as a dog?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Chapter 23. David's life has always included literature. His references to literature are casual and throughout his narrative. They are his way of defining episodes in his life. Why, then, might he have chosen to write an opera instead of a novel? What might this musical form offer him that literature would not?
Essay Topic 2
In Chapter 4, David lectures on Byron's poem, Lara. Using the excerpts in the chapter, or the entire text, discuss the themes of this poem and connect them to what are probable themes in David's life before or now.
Essay Topic 3
Chapter 24. How can David's bringing his dog to Bev be symbolic of his growth or transformation in this novel?
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