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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The others agree to wait at the motel because
(a) They want to avoid an emotional situation with the narrator.
(b) They just want to have fun and drink beer.
(c) They know the narrator wants to get away from them.
(d) They are not welcome in the town.

2. Paul assumes the narrator is traveling with her husband because
(a) She has not told anyone she is divorced.
(b) Women are not safe to travel alone in that part of Canada.
(c) She has told him she will bring a man along.
(d) She is obviously traveling with a man.

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

4. David blames the changes in the town and the negative outcomes on
(a) Changing values.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Americans and capitalism.
(d) Changing times.

5. 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 never returning to Canada.
(d) She is divorced and has abandoned her child.

Short Answer Questions

1. The fact that the narrator cannot speak the language of her hometown suggests

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

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

4. The narrator has identified two different women in town known as Madame because

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

(see the answer key)

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