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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator reports that she is beginning to suspect
(a) That she is somehow different from her guests.
(b) That she cannot communicate in English.
(c) That her father is alive.
(d) That her head and body are somehow separate.

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

3. The narrator takes her guests to visit what local oddity?
(a) The fountain.
(b) The motel.
(c) The bottle house.
(d) The teepee.

4. What is Bill Malmstrom's purpose in visiting the island?
(a) He wants to search for the narrator's father.
(b) He wants to scare the narrator into leaving.
(c) He wants to seize the land for the government.
(d) He wants to buy the narrator's property.

5. The narrator's father preferred animals to people because
(a) They did not speak.
(b) They could survive in the wild.
(c) They behaved rationally and predictably.
(d) They were guided by nature.

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

7. The narrator believes that her childhood made her
(a) Socially retarded.
(b) Mentally retarded.
(c) A bitter person.
(d) A stronger person.

8. David wants to stay on the island
(a) To find the narrator's father.
(b) To do some fishing.
(c) To escape his responsibilities.
(d) To be alone with the narrator.

9. None of the others ask the narrator where she is going or what she is doing, which suggests
(a) They are afraid she will break down emotionally.
(b) They are unwilling or unable to communicate.
(c) They are lazy and disinterested in the island.
(d) They are all experienced campers.

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

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

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

13. The narrator finally tells Anna
(a) That her father is probably dead.
(b) That she has been married and has a child.
(c) That Joe has proposed.
(d) That she wants to leave the island.

14. 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) Her goal was to live on the water.
(d) She could move any time she wished, taking only the people she wanted to be around.

15. Flashing back on her first husband, the narrator states
(a) The failure of their marriage was entirely his fault.
(b) She will never trust the word "love" again.
(c) She believes she never loved him.
(d) He was an inexperienced woodsman.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator visits her mother in the hospital, she informs her mother that

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

3. Reviewing her father's papers, the narrator discovers

4. What happens between the narrator and Joe while picking blueberries?

5. The narrator's description of the city they drive through is

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