Surfacing | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Chapter 1

1. The narrator and her companions are traveling in

Canada.

2. The narrator's description of the city they drive through is

Bleak and depressing.

3. The narrator reveals that she has not visited her parents here because

There would be too many explanations.

4. What is suggested by the fact that the narrator describes Anna as her best woman friend, though they've know each other only two months?

The narrator does not have many female friends.

5. The name of the film David is making is called

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6. The narrator takes her guests to visit what local oddity?

The bottle house.

7. The narrator's attitude toward pain--if it hurts invent a different pain--indicates

She is currently looking for a diversion from pain in her life.

8. David blames the changes in the town and the negative outcomes on

Americans and capitalism.

9. What does...
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