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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 does Catherine do to the clippings about David's writing?
(a) Swallows them.
(b) Frames them.
(c) Throws them away.
(d) Burns them.

2. How does Catherine travel to Paris?
(a) By bike.
(b) By boat.
(c) By train.
(d) By bus.

3. What is the name of the father figure in the African stories?
(a) Frank.
(b) Father.
(c) Robert.
(d) David.

4. About what does David say he cares most in Chapter 25?
(a) Marita.
(b) His writing.
(c) Himself.
(d) Catherine.

5. How does David feel when he sees what Catherine has done to his African stories?
(a) Sick.
(b) Betrayed.
(c) Humiliated.
(d) Grateful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Davy decide when they reach the female elephant corpse?

2. What does David do with Marita once he stops writing on the first day he tries to write after his stories have been burned?

3. What does David do with everything he has written on the first day he tries to write after his stories have been burned?

4. What does Catherine do after she reads the short story?

5. What does Catherine do to David's African stories?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Catherine say about the long manuscript in Chapter 23?

2. What does Davy think as the elephant dies?

3. What does Catherine ask David to do after he writes the part about Davy on the hunt, and what is his response?

4. About what does Marita wonder in Chapter 28?

5. What do David and Marita talk about after David writes about the skeleton of the female elephant?

6. What does David want to talk to his father about, and why?

7. What does David do after Catherine has destroyed his short stories?

8. What does Davy do on the hunt that makes his father proud of him?

9. What does Catherine say to David about his clippings when they are on the beach, and what has she done with them?

10. What does Catherine say when David and Marita come home from celebrating the completion of the elephant story?

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