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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. The narrator describes her job as
(a) Appropriate and tailored to her, like a well-made suit.
(b) Awkward and ill-fitting, like an artificial limb.
(c) Important and undervalued.
(d) Pretentious and worldly.

4. What is the narrator afraid will happen if she leaves her scrapbooks out around the others?
(a) She is afraid the others will think her family is odd.
(b) She is afraid the others will judge her drawings.
(c) She is afraid the others will spy on her.
(d) She is afraid the others will guess what has happened to her father.

5. At the end of the chapter the narrator describes herself as
(a) Numb and detached.
(b) A magician.
(c) Bleeding and in pain.
(d) Without words to describe her feelings.

6. The name of the film David is making is called
(a) Random Sayings
(b) Samples of Reality
(c) Random Places
(d) Random Samples

7. What information does Anna share with the narrator?
(a) That she has frequently been unfaithful to David.
(b) That she and David are not happily married.
(c) That David's flirtation is really all about her, not the narrator.
(d) That David is in love with the narrator.

8. The narrator is trying to decide
(a) Whether she loved her first husband.
(b) Whether she is falling in love with David.
(c) Whether she loved her parents.
(d) Whether she loves Joe.

9. When the women discuss birth control, the narrator suggests
(a) That women had no choice but to risk their health by taking the pill.
(b) That women had defied men by refusing to take the piill.
(c) That sex without risk or consequences is unnatural.
(d) That Joe and David did not care about the physical risks to the women.

10. The narrator decides that everything she values about Joe is
(a) Psychological.
(b) Physical.
(c) Debatable.
(d) Emotional.

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

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

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

14. What does the narrator find hanging from a tree?
(a) Her father.
(b) A torn-up doll.
(c) A dead heron.
(d) A dead fish.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator's attitude toward pain--if it hurts invent a different pain--indicates

3. In the morning, the narrator and Joe discuss

4. David is most interested in

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

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