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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. David approaches the narrator because
(a) He is worried that Anna will leave him.
(b) He hears a motorboat approaching.
(c) He wants to have sex with her.
(d) He cannot find Joe.

2. The narrator seduces Joe because
(a) She wants revenge on Anna.
(b) She wants to make up with him.
(c) She loves him after all.
(d) She wants to get pregnant.

3. The narrator brings one blanket with her because
(a) She will make a tent out of it.
(b) She needs it for camouflage.
(c) She will need it for warmth until her fur grows.
(d) She is afraid to be naked outside.

4. Anna hides her face from David because
(a) She is angry at David.
(b) She has forgotten her make-up.
(c) She has forgotten her sunscreen.
(d) She is sunburned.

5. The searchers hear the narrator when she
(a) Begins to run through the forest.
(b) Calls out to be left alone.
(c) Starts up their motorboat.
(d) Cannot hold back her laughter.

6. What does the narrator believe has happened to her country?
(a) The narrator believes her country has sold out to whoever gets elected.
(b) The narrator believes her country has become more natural.
(c) The narrator believes her country has kept its principles.
(d) The narrator believes her country has prepared itself for war.

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

8. What does the author see while diving?
(a) She sees her father's body.
(b) She sees a rock painting.
(c) She sees a dead thing she cannot identify.
(d) She sees her own image.

9. Finally, the narrator accepts that her parents were
(a) Human.
(b) Afraid of each other.
(c) Selfish.
(d) Cruel.

10. The narrator cannot understand the searchers because
(a) She no longer hears the sounds from human mouths.
(b) She no longer recognizes French or English.
(c) They are too far away to be heard.
(d) They are speaking Spanish.

11. Joe confesses that he slept with Anna, but says
(a) He only did it because the narrator slept with David.
(b) He was not sure if he loved the narrator at the time.
(c) He and the narrator were on a break.
(d) It meant nothing to him.

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

13. According to the new rules
(a) All human contact is forbidden.
(b) All enclosed spaces are forbidden.
(c) All plants are forbidden.
(d) All meat is forbidden.

14. The narrator awakes to the sound of
(a) Joe standing above her.
(b) A motorboat approaching.
(c) Voices in the woods.
(d) Her father's presence.

15. The narrator is bothered by city toilets because
(a) They are hard and uncomfortable.
(b) The have nothing to do with nature.
(c) She is afraid of disease.
(d) They made things vanish, and she worries they will make her vanish.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator surveys the damage to the cabin

2. The rules are over because

3. Anna confesses

4. The narrator's body remembering how to canoe and dive signals

5. The narrator cleanses herself of her human skin by

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