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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the garden the narrator prays
(a) That Joe will come back for her.
(b) That the forest will take care for her.
(c) That all the Americans will die.
(d) That her parents will return to her.

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

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

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

5. 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 eat from the forest.
(d) She can no longer enter any place that is enclosed.

6. The narrator believes her father
(a) Can change shapes.
(b) Can see her in the dark.
(c) Has come back to take her with him.
(d) Has revealed her to the searchers.

7. What reason does the narrator give Joe for refusing to sleep with him?
(a) She says she is working out her problems alone.
(b) She says she knows he slept with Anna.
(c) She says she will get pregnant.
(d) She says she does not love him.

8. The narrator believes her child will be
(a) A perfect being.
(b) An angel.
(c) A kitten.
(d) A fur-covered god.

9. The narrator decides her mother's gift for her is
(a) A picture she herself had drawn as a child.
(b) A book.
(c) A scrapbook of newsclippings about her.
(d) A drawing her mother made for her.

10. As the narrator gardens, she finally
(a) Cries over the death of her parents.
(b) Decides to search for her father's body.
(c) Eats the overgrown vegetables.
(d) Finds the gift her parents left for her.

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

12. As the narrator considers her predicament, she decides that perhaps the searchers
(a) Had come to prevent her from becoming fully animal.
(b) Only came to laugh at her strangeness.
(c) Were only interested in buying her land.
(d) Only came to warn her about the approaching fall and winter.

13. The narrator feels that if she does not feed the child inside her, it will
(a) Invoke the gods against her.
(b) Begin to feed on her or absorb her.
(c) Become angry and try to destroy her.
(d) Cause her parents to leave again.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author see while diving?

2. When the narrator surveys the damage to the cabin

3. The footprints the narrator thought belonged to her father

4. The narrator awakes to the sound of

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

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