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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 and Anna have many things in common.
(b) The narrator does not have many female friends.
(c) The narrator and Anna have actually known each other much longer.
(d) The narrator does not like people.

2. The narrator believes her father
(a) Will be furious with her for staying away so long.
(b) Does not want to be found.
(c) Has died out on the lake.
(d) Will be waiting for her when she arrives.

3. The narrator remembers a tugboat with a house on it that appealed to her because
(a) She could escape her parents with a boat like that.
(b) The people on the boat seemed to be having fun.
(c) She could move any time she wished, taking only the people she wanted to be around.
(d) Her goal was to live on the water.

4. At the end of the chapter, the author compares an unborn child to
(a) A secret passenger.
(b) A frog in a jar.
(c) A leech.
(d) An unopened gift.

5. The narrator has identified two different women in town known as Madame because
(a) Madame is a common name in Canada.
(b) She remembers them as older, married women.
(c) None of the women in town had names when she was a child.
(d) She cannot remember anyone's name anymore.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. The repetition of the word "echoes" in the last paragraph suggests

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