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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Approaching the tool shed, the narrator finds
(a) She is now forbidden to use tools.
(b) The searchers are waiting for her.
(c) Her father has locked the shed.
(d) She is now forbidden to walk on paths.

3. The narrator decides that David, Anna, and Joe
(a) Should stay another week.
(b) Have all become Canadians now.
(c) Have all become Americans now.
(d) Should help her find her parents.

4. What object does the narrator search for without success before leaving the cabin?
(a) Her father's maps.
(b) Her mother's leather jacket.
(c) Her mother's camera.
(d) Her father's camera.

5. The narrator leaves her droppings behind and sleeps in a den because
(a) She cannot remember what humans do anymore.
(b) That is what she has always done in the woods.
(c) That is what animals do.
(d) That is what her parents have asked of her.

6. In the middle of the night, the narrator decides
(a) Her parents' gifts were misinterpreted.
(b) Her parents are not actually dead.
(c) Her parents have returned but are trapped outside.
(d) Her parents are not going to return to her.

7. The narrator believes the others have locked the cabin door to
(a) Punish her.
(b) Keep her from finding her parents.
(c) Keep her parents out.
(d) Drive her back to the village.

8. What does the narrator do before leaving the cabin?
(a) She destroys the clothing, blankets, dishes, and papers.
(b) She creates a new map for her father.
(c) She leaves a note behind for Paul and Joe.
(d) She finishes the drawings for her children's book.

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

10. Reflecting on David, the narrator feels
(a) Rage against him.
(b) Only sorrow for him.
(c) Only a desire to free Anna from him.
(d) Loneliness for his presence.

11. In the morning Anna assumes
(a) The narrator and Joe have gotten back together.
(b) The narrator and Joe have run off together.
(c) The narrator wants them all to leave.
(d) The narrator has accepted her father's death.

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

13. At the end of the chapter Anna describes the narrator as
(a) Animal.
(b) Inhuman.
(c) Ugly.
(d) A goody two-shoes.

14. What does the narrator do while Joe and David carry the canoe up to the cabin?
(a) She tells Anna to leave David.
(b) She dumps all their film in the lake.
(c) She dumps their luggage in the lake.
(d) She hides in the woods.

15. According to the narrator, what might save Joe?
(a) His refusal to use words.
(b) His anger at the narrator.
(c) His refusal to eat meat.
(d) His refusal to believe her father is dead.

Short Answer Questions

1. At night the narrator

2. The next morning the narrator begins to feel

3. The narrator brings one blanket with her because

4. The narrator believes her child will be

5. The narrator decides that the spot her father marked on the map was not for a cave painting but for

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