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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 has to ask for directions because
(a) She can't remember where she lived.
(b) The area has changed since she visited last.
(c) They have arrived in the wrong town.
(d) All the new roads have confused her.

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

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

4. David and Anna seem to communicate by
(a) Fighting agressively at all times.
(b) Teasing or ignoring each other.
(c) Exchanging silent looks.
(d) Telling others what they think of each other.

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 is never returning to Canada.
(c) She is divorced and has abandoned her child.
(d) She will not be attending the funeral.

Short Answer 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?

2. The narrator believes her parents never took down the chicken-wire enclosure because

3. The narrator describes the lake as

4. What does the narrator notice about the fountain in town?

5. The narrator says her father's house is difficult to find because

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