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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After reviewing her father's papers, the narrator decides
(a) Her father had gone insane.
(b) Her father had been hired to write another report.
(c) Her father had some secret purpose she must discover.
(d) Her father had been an artist too.

3. What does the narrator feel is her first mistake during her visit to the store?
(a) She asks about the old priest, who is dead.
(b) She asks for Canadian bacon, proving she is American.
(c) She tries to speak French, but has a discernable accent.
(d) She assumes the speak English, and they do not.

4. On the lake the narrator feels a sense of
(a) Fear and foreboding.
(b) Peace and homecoming.
(c) Cautiousness.
(d) Love and longing for her family.

5. The narrator tells Paul
(a) That her father is probably dead.
(b) That her father has gone insane.
(c) That her father has returned to the island.
(d) That her father is away on a trip.

6. What were the subjects of the narrator's drawings in her scrapbooks?
(a) Women and Easter eggs.
(b) Birds.
(c) Woodland animals.
(d) Cave paintings.

7. The narrator claims to rehearse
(a) Facts and figures.
(b) Disaster scenarios.
(c) Emotions.
(d) Speeches.

8. The narrator decides her childhood was a good one because
(a) It was in Canada rather than America.
(b) Anna tells her she should appreciate it.
(c) It was safe and removed from real world events.
(d) There was no war or poverty during her youth.

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

10. The narrator's description of the city they drive through is
(a) Dark and dangerous.
(b) Bleak and depressing.
(c) Sophisticated and upscale.
(d) Bright and cheerful.

11. What does the narrator say she should have studied instead of art?
(a) Linguistics.
(b) Botany.
(c) Psychology.
(d) History.

12. The narrator thinks she cannot communicate with Joe because
(a) She does not know the right language.
(b) She does not want to.
(c) She is afraid he will be violent.
(d) He does not know what he is talking about.

13. What does the narrator notice about the fountain in town?
(a) It is not as big as she remembers it.
(b) It is in a different place than she remembers.
(c) The cherub in the middle is missing half its face.
(d) The dolphins are missing.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. At the start of the chapter, the narrator resolves

2. Flashing back on her first husband, the narrator states

3. What does David want to do with the fish in the morning?

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

5. 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?

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