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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator brings one blanket with her because
(a) She will need it for warmth until her fur grows.
(b) She is afraid to be naked outside.
(c) She will make a tent out of it.
(d) She needs it for camouflage.

2. The narrator seduces Joe because
(a) She wants to make up with him.
(b) She wants revenge on Anna.
(c) She wants to get pregnant.
(d) She loves him after all.

3. The narrator believes her father
(a) Has revealed her to the searchers.
(b) Has come back to take her with him.
(c) Can see her in the dark.
(d) Can change shapes.

4. What new rule does the narrator perceive for herself?
(a) She can no longer enter any place that is enclosed.
(b) She can no longer eat from the forest.
(c) She can no longer eat from the lake.
(d) She can no longer enter the forest.

5. The rules are over because
(a) The narrator's parents have returned to the earth.
(b) The narrator wants to go home.
(c) The narrator cannot remember them.
(d) The searchers have ruined her lair.

6. The narrator is bothered by city toilets because
(a) They made things vanish, and she worries they will make her vanish.
(b) She is afraid of disease.
(c) They are hard and uncomfortable.
(d) The have nothing to do with nature.

7. Finally, the narrator accepts that her parents were
(a) Afraid of each other.
(b) Cruel.
(c) Human.
(d) Selfish.

8. While she searches, who arrives by boat?
(a) Paul and the surveyor.
(b) Her brother.
(c) Her father.
(d) Paul and the police.

9. The narrator decides that the spot her father marked on the map was not for a cave painting but for
(a) A place to remember your past.
(b) A place to escape human relationships.
(c) A place of salvation or truth.
(d) A place of escape from pain.

10. The narrator feels that if she does not feed the child inside her, it will
(a) Invoke the gods against her.
(b) Become angry and try to destroy her.
(c) Begin to feed on her or absorb her.
(d) Cause her parents to leave again.

11. What happens when the group goes in search of the rock painting?
(a) They cannot find it.
(b) David decides to fish again.
(c) The narrator and Joe get in an argument.
(d) They find it and film it for Random Samples.

12. In the middle of the night, the narrator decides
(a) Her parents are not actually dead.
(b) Her parents have returned but are trapped outside.
(c) Her parents are not going to return to her.
(d) Her parents' gifts were misinterpreted.

13. The footprints the narrator thought belonged to her father
(a) Were actually her own.
(b) Were actually her mother's.
(c) Belonged to one of the searchers.
(d) Belonged to a wild animal.

14. The narrator decides her mother's gift for her is
(a) A book.
(b) A picture she herself had drawn as a child.
(c) A drawing her mother made for her.
(d) A scrapbook of newsclippings about her.

15. Approaching the tool shed, the narrator finds
(a) She is now forbidden to walk on paths.
(b) The searchers are waiting for her.
(c) Her father has locked the shed.
(d) She is now forbidden to use tools.

Short Answer Questions

1. The next morning the narrator begins to feel

2. The narrator is afraid of doors because

3. The narrator describes the child inside her as

4. David runs back to the cabin to tell the narrator

5. The narrator feels the misunderstood face what two possibilities?

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