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Surfacing | Quiz

Margaret Atwood
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Surfacing | Quiz

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1)

Who interrupts the narrator in the outhouse and why? (from Chapter 8)

Paul, with news about her father.
Joe, insisting that they talk about their relationship.
Anna, asking her if she is okay.
David, telling her she must be caught.
2)

Reflecting on David, the narrator feels (from Chapter 26)

Loneliness for his presence.
Only sorrow for him.
Rage against him.
Only a desire to free Anna from him.
3)

What change is developing in the narrator's relationship with Joe? (from Chapter 10)

The narrator is beginning is to see that she no longer wants to be in the relationship.
The narrator has decided she loves Joe.
The narrator has decided that she wants a marriage like David and Anna's.
The narrator is willing to wait to see if she loves him.
4)

When the women discuss birth control, the narrator suggests (from Chapter 9)

That women had no choice but to risk their health by taking the pill.
That Joe and David did not care about the physical risks to the women.
That women had defied men by refusing to take the piill.
That sex without risk or consequences is unnatural.
5)

What information does Anna share with the narrator? (from Chapter 11)

That David is in love with the narrator.
That she has frequently been unfaithful to David.
That David's flirtation is really all about her, not the narrator.
That she and David are not happily married.
6)

The narrator is bothered by city toilets because (from Chapter 14)

The have nothing to do with nature.
They made things vanish, and she worries they will make her vanish.
They are hard and uncomfortable.
She is afraid of disease.
7)

The rules are over because (from Chapter 26)

The narrator wants to go home.
The narrator cannot remember them.
The searchers have ruined her lair.
The narrator's parents have returned to the earth.
8)

The narrator finds she must choose life because (from Chapter 27)

Her parents have told her so in a dream.
Joe would want it that way.
Her baby must be allowed to live.
She has grown cold and hungry on the island.
9)

What does the narrator find hanging from a tree? (from Chapter 13)

Her father.
A dead fish.
A torn-up doll.
A dead heron.
10)

What happens between the narrator and Joe while picking blueberries? (from Chapter 10)

The narrator tells Joe she is returning to her husband.
The narrator tells Joe she is in love with someone else.
Joe proposes and the narrator refuses.
Joe breaks up with the narrator.
11)

Joe wants to know (from Chapter 20)

If the narrator is pregnant.
If the narrator is losing her mind.
If the narrator is leaving him.
If the narrator loves him now.
12)

What happens when the group goes in search of the rock painting? (from Chapter 15)

They cannot find it.
The narrator and Joe get in an argument.
They find it and film it for Random Samples.
David decides to fish again.
13)

The narrator tells Paul (from Chapter 11)

That her father has returned to the island.
That her father is away on a trip.
That her father is probably dead.
That her father has gone insane.
14)

The narrator leaves her droppings behind and sleeps in a den because (from Chapter 23)

That is what animals do.
She cannot remember what humans do anymore.
That is what she has always done in the woods.
That is what her parents have asked of her.
15)

The men take turns taking footage of the wood they have chopped rather than letting the women film them because (from Chapter 9)

They do not want the women to know what they are filming.
They only want males to appear in the film.
They can not wait for the women to finish their gardening.
They are afraid the women will break the camera.
16)

The narrator decides her mother's gift for her is (from Chapter 19)

A picture she herself had drawn as a child.
A scrapbook of newsclippings about her.
A book.
A drawing her mother made for her.
17)

The narrator cleanses herself of her human skin by (from Chapter 23)

Bathing in the lake and leaving her clothes behind.
Refusing to eat or drink.
Harshly scrubbing her skin with a scrub brush.
Taking a long shower in the cabin.
18)

The narrator decides that the spot her father marked on the map was not for a cave painting but for (from Chapter 17)

A place of escape from pain.
A place to remember your past.
A place of salvation or truth.
A place to escape human relationships.
19)

The searchers hear the narrator when she (from Chapter 25)

Calls out to be left alone.
Cannot hold back her laughter.
Begins to run through the forest.
Starts up their motorboat.
20)

The lie the narrator has told herself was (from Chapter 27)

That she was not an American herself.
That she was powerless and could do no harm.
That she loved Joe.
That she was not human.
21)

The canoe trip is difficult for the group because (from Chapter 13)

David and Joe cannot be trusted.
The canoe is too heavy.
The Americans have interrupted their progress.
The wind is strong and the group is inexperienced.
22)

At the end of the chapter Anna describes the narrator as (from Chapter 18)

Inhuman.
Animal.
Ugly.
A goody two-shoes.
23)

The narrator fears touching Joe in his sleep because (from Chapter 15)

He does not like to be touched by anyone.
He might run away.
He sometimes reacts violently to her touch.
He will be angry if she touches him.
24)

According to the narrator, what might save Joe? (from Chapter 19)

His refusal to eat meat.
His anger at the narrator.
His refusal to use words.
His refusal to believe her father is dead.
25)

The narrator's insistence that does not know the right languages or dialects supports the idea that (from Chapter 9)

She struggles to communicate with others.
She has never been a good student.
She was isolated from French speakers as a child.
She struggles to interpret foreigners.
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