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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is significant about the narrator's brother drowning?
(a) He is looking up out of the water.
(b) He develops a lifelong fear of water.
(c) The narrator never gets a chance to know him.
(d) He does not die, but is saved by his mother.

2. The narrator finds it difficult to enter the lake because
(a) She can not remember how to swim.
(b) She is afraid of drowning.
(c) It is too cold.
(d) She is afraid her father will appear.

3. The others decide they want to
(a) Stay on for the rest of the week.
(b) Continue fishing.
(c) Hunt for bears.
(d) Help the narrator find her father.

4. The narrator believes Joe first liked her because
(a) She is an artist.
(b) She does not drink alcohol.
(c) She has distanced herself from her family.
(d) She expresses no emotion.

5. The narrator is trying to decide
(a) Whether she loves Joe.
(b) Whether she loved her first husband.
(c) Whether she is falling in love with David.
(d) Whether she loved her parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. David slips in and out of "a yokel dialect," which implies

2. The narrator believes that her childhood made her

3. The narrator reveals that her parents have not forgiven her for

4. The narrator feels the others will not understand her search for her father because

5. The description of the tourists who visit the town implies

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