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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While the narrator shops, her companions
(a) Decide to return to the city.
(b) Have found a clue about her father.
(c) Find transportation to the cabin.
(d) Drink beer in the motel.

2. At the start of the chapter, the narrator resolves
(a) That she will marry Joe if he asks her.
(b) That she has done all she can, and no one can expect more from her.
(c) That she has to leave the island immediately.
(d) That she must keep looking for her father no matter what.

3. The narrator feels the others will not understand her search for her father because
(a) They did not know him and do not care what happened.
(b) They all disowned their parents long ago.
(c) They all want to return to the city.
(d) They all believe he is dead already.

4. The narrator discovers Anna
(a) Putting on her make-up early in the morning.
(b) Digging through her old scrapbooks.
(c) Sneaking a cigarette outside.
(d) Weeding the garden for her.

5. When the narrator visits her mother in the hospital, she informs her mother that
(a) She will not be attending the funeral.
(b) She is divorced and has abandoned her child.
(c) She is never returning to Canada.
(d) She is living with a man who is not her husband.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new structure has invaded the narrator's hometown?

2. The narrator believes her father

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

4. At the end of the chapter, the author compares an unborn child to

5. The narrator describes her job as

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