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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. When Annie's abductor returned, as told in Session 8, he told her that he had been where?
(a) Clayton Falls.
(b) Anchorage.
(c) Seattle.
(d) Edmonton.

2. In Session 11, Annie tells her psychiatrist how her abductor began allowing her outside to do what?
(a) Tan in the sun.
(b) Tend a vegetable garden.
(c) Go to the bathroom.
(d) Wash his car.

3. What character was adopted by a woman with a strange sense of boundaries in the novel?
(a) Annie.
(b) The Freak.
(c) Lorraine.
(d) Christina.

4. The night that Annie's abductor returned to the cabin, he was able to successfully do what in Session 6?
(a) Cook dinner for her.
(b) Fix a leak in the roof.
(c) Start the lawn mower.
(d) Rape her.

5. What is Christina's profession in the novel?
(a) Artist.
(b) Beautician.
(c) Teacher.
(d) Realtor.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Annie's profession before her abduction?

2. In Session 8, Annie talks about her own reaction to her pregnancy and how the idea of having her abductor's baby made her feel what at first?

3. In Session 10, Annie describes an inappropriate relationship between her abductor and whom that led to jealousy and possible murder on the abductor's part?

4. What was the sex of Annie's baby?

5. When was Stevens' novel, "Never Knowing", published?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Annie describe her father's death in Session 2? How is the setting of the cabin described in this session?

2. How long did Annie's abductor leave her alone in the cabin, as described in Session 8? What news did he relate upon his return?

3. Describe the bath given to Annie by her abductor, as described in Session 3. What did she call the abductor?

4. How did Annie respond to seeing her child after childbirth, as described in Session 12? How did Annie's abductor respond to the baby?

5. What happy times does Annie describe during her captivity in Session 7?

6. What was Annie's abductor's response when she made sexual advances toward him, as described in Session 5?

7. Discuss the narrative style of the novel. How reliable is the narrator and why?

8. What did Annie fear of her abductor after the birth of her baby, as described in Session 12?

9. What interaction did Annie have with her captor upon first awakening in the cabin, as described in Session 2?

10. How does Annie describe the open house in Session 1? Who arrived and abducted her?

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