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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Though the narrator has memorized survival guides, she realizes that it is still possible
(a) To forget which plants are edible and which are not.
(b) To detach herself from nature entirely.
(c) To lose one's way.
(d) To learn more about nature.

4. 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.

5. The canoe trip is difficult for the group because
(a) David and Joe cannot be trusted.
(b) The canoe is too heavy.
(c) The Americans have interrupted their progress.
(d) The wind is strong and the group is inexperienced.

6. The narrator reveals that she has not visited her parents here because
(a) There would be too many explanations.
(b) There would be too much to forgive.
(c) She always felt out of place here.
(d) She thought her parents would live forever.

7. 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.

8. What burdensome object has David insisted on bringing in the canoe?
(a) His radio.
(b) His movie camera.
(c) His suitcase.
(d) His raincoat.

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

10. The narrator believes Joe first liked her because
(a) She has distanced herself from her family.
(b) She does not drink alcohol.
(c) She is an artist.
(d) She expresses no emotion.

11. David blames the changes in the town and the negative outcomes on
(a) Americans and capitalism.
(b) Fascism.
(c) Changing times.
(d) Changing values.

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

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

14. The narrator's attitude toward pain--if it hurts invent a different pain--indicates
(a) She is unable to deal with any pain.
(b) She is confrontational when dealing with pain.
(c) She is a masochist.
(d) She is currently looking for a diversion from pain in her life.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. David teaches

2. The men take turns taking footage of the wood they have chopped rather than letting the women film them because

3. The narrator describes the lake as

4. The narrator's insistence that does not know the right languages or dialects supports the idea that

5. David is most interested in

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