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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says her father's house is difficult to find because
(a) No one really wants to find him.
(b) Camouflage was one of his best abilities.
(c) Neighbors were a nuisance to him.
(d) Evans keeps taking wrong turns.

2. The narrator believes her parents never took down the chicken-wire enclosure because
(a) They used it to catch rabbits.
(b) It was now used to enclose the garden.
(c) They anticipated grandchildren.
(d) They were always keeping useless things.

3. Who arrives on the island at the start of the chapter?
(a) Paul and Bill Malmstrom.
(b) Paul and the narrator's father.
(c) Paul and Evans.
(d) Paul and his wife.

4. Because Anna is angry with him, David comments on
(a) The narrator's behind.
(b) Joe's refusal to talk.
(c) Anna's flab.
(d) Anna's make-up.

5. The narrator feels the others will not understand her search for her father because
(a) They all believe he is dead already.
(b) They all want to return to the city.
(c) They did not know him and do not care what happened.
(d) They all disowned their parents long ago.

6. The narrator reveals that her parents have not forgiven her for
(a) Getting divorced and abandoning her child.
(b) Getting married without them.
(c) Leaving the lake to live in the city.
(d) Living with a man outside of marriage.

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

8. While the narrator shops, her companions
(a) Decide to return to the city.
(b) Have found a clue about her father.
(c) Find transportation to the cabin.
(d) Drink beer in the motel.

9. At the end of the chapter the narrator decides
(a) She will burn her father's drawings and leave him in peace on the island.
(b) She will find her father no matter what it costs her.
(c) Her father must have been killed by the Americans.
(d) She will take her father's drawings to the police.

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

11. The narrator pretends she is working so she can
(a) Have some quiet inside the cabin.
(b) Hide from David and Joe.
(c) Look through her father's papers again.
(d) Avoid Anna's embarrassing confessions.

12. The narrator and her companions are traveling in
(a) France.
(b) Canada.
(c) The United States.
(d) Mexico.

13. The first danger the group encounters is
(a) The grizzly bears.
(b) The American fishermen.
(c) The narrator's insane father.
(d) The slippery, rotted dock.

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

15. During her visit with Paul, the narrator flashes back on
(a) Her last visit to the lake.
(b) Her last visit with her ex-husband and child.
(c) Her last visit with her father.
(d) Her last visit with her dying mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator finally tells Anna

2. The narrator believes her father

3. What does the narrator feel is her first mistake during her visit to the store?

4. What question does the narrator recall asking her husband on their wedding day?

5. The narrator thinks she cannot communicate with Joe because

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