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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The description of the tourists who visit the town implies
(a) The narrator is indifferent to their presence.
(b) The narrator appreciates their contribution to the town.
(c) The narrator feels they are imposters.
(d) The narrator feels hatred and hostility toward them.

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

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

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

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

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

7. Though David catches the fish, the narrator must
(a) Provide him with the bait and kill the fish.
(b) Throw it back as it is too small.
(c) Reel it in and kill it.
(d) Hand it over to the Americans.

8. 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.

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

10. The others decide they want to
(a) Hunt for bears.
(b) Help the narrator find her father.
(c) Stay on for the rest of the week.
(d) Continue fishing.

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

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

13. Instead of reading or playing bridge, the group decides to
(a) Smoke pot out by the lake.
(b) Tell each other stories about their childhoods.
(c) Hunt for the next day's breakfast.
(d) Have a bonfire.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. On the lake the narrator feels a sense of

2. The narrator believes her father

3. David teaches

4. At the end of the chapter the narrator decides

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

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