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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The rules are over because
(a) The narrator's parents have returned to the earth.
(b) The narrator cannot remember them.
(c) The narrator wants to go home.
(d) The searchers have ruined her lair.

2. David is interested in the dead bird
(a) Only as a Random Sample
(b) Only as a biological specimen.
(c) Because he is hungry.
(d) Because he cares about animals.

3. What happens when the group goes in search of the rock painting?
(a) They find it and film it for Random Samples.
(b) They cannot find it.
(c) David decides to fish again.
(d) The narrator and Joe get in an argument.

4. The narrator wishes
(a) The "American" campers would confess to killing the heron.
(b) The others would leave her behind on the island.
(c) The "American" campers would be destroyed somehow.
(d) The "American" campers would fish on a different lake.

5. The narrator rejects David's offer to
(a) Help her paddle the canoe.
(b) Take her back to town.
(c) Help her fish for dinner.
(d) Help her sell the cabin and land.

6. David claims to have humiliated Anna because
(a) She is unfaithful to him.
(b) She enjoys it.
(c) She does not love him.
(d) She needs to be put in her place.

7. The narrator is searching for
(a) Her mother's diary.
(b) A gift her mother might have left her.
(c) A book her mother left behind.
(d) Her mother's ghost.

8. While she searches, who arrives by boat?
(a) Her father.
(b) Paul and the surveyor.
(c) Her brother.
(d) Paul and the police.

9. After her experience in the water, the narrator feels
(a) Her place is outside with the animals.
(b) She has wronged her former lover.
(c) Her other half is returning.
(d) She must return to the city.

10. The narrator cleanses herself of her human skin by
(a) Taking a long shower in the cabin.
(b) Refusing to eat or drink.
(c) Harshly scrubbing her skin with a scrub brush.
(d) Bathing in the lake and leaving her clothes behind.

11. When the narrator meets the "Americans" she learns
(a) They are actually French and cannot communicate with her.
(b) They are actually Canadians and thought she was American.
(c) They are angry about sharing their fishing spot.
(d) They are transplants from Kansas.

12. What new rule does the narrator perceive for herself?
(a) She can no longer eat from the lake.
(b) She can no longer eat from the forest.
(c) She can no longer enter any place that is enclosed.
(d) She can no longer enter the forest.

13. What is David trying to convince Anna to do?
(a) Skinny-dip with him.
(b) Leave the island together.
(c) Pose naked for his movie camera.
(d) Go fishing with him.

14. Joe wants to know
(a) If the narrator is losing her mind.
(b) If the narrator is pregnant.
(c) If the narrator is leaving him.
(d) If the narrator loves him now.

15. The narrator finally recovers the memory of
(a) Her wedding day.
(b) Being born.
(c) Having an abortion.
(d) Finding her drowned brother.

Short Answer Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give Joe for refusing to sleep with him?

2. What does the narrator do before leaving the cabin?

3. Anna hides her face from David because

4. The narrator is bothered by city toilets because

5. Anna confesses

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