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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator's description of the city they drive through is
(a) Sophisticated and upscale.
(b) Bright and cheerful.
(c) Bleak and depressing.
(d) Dark and dangerous.

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

3. The narrator's attitude toward pain--if it hurts invent a different pain--indicates
(a) She is unable to deal with any pain.
(b) She is confrontational when dealing with pain.
(c) She is a masochist.
(d) She is currently looking for a diversion from pain in her life.

4. What is suggested by the fact that the narrator describes Anna as her best woman friend, though they've know each other only two months?
(a) The narrator does not like people.
(b) The narrator and Anna have actually known each other much longer.
(c) The narrator does not have many female friends.
(d) The narrator and Anna have many things in common.

5. The fact that the narrator cannot speak the language of her hometown suggests
(a) She rejects the idea that she is French Canadian.
(b) She does not care about communicating with her parents' friends.
(c) She feels foreign.
(d) She does not fully identify with it, and does not feel understood.

Short Answer Questions

1. None of the others ask the narrator where she is going or what she is doing, which suggests

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

3. As she travels through the town, the narrator feels

4. During her visit with Paul, the narrator flashes back on

5. The narrator and her companions are traveling in

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