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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 cannot find Joe.
(d) He wants to have sex with her.

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

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

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

5. The narrator decides that the spot her father marked on the map was not for a cave painting but for
(a) A place to remember your past.
(b) A place of escape from pain.
(c) A place of salvation or truth.
(d) A place to escape human relationships.

6. The narrator describes Anna as
(a) Moody.
(b) A shell of a woman.
(c) A whore.
(d) An imitation of an imitation woman.

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

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

9. The narrator does not know what to do next because
(a) She feels her power has drained away.
(b) She has decided to sell her place to the surveyor.
(c) She wishes she would have left with the others.
(d) She is still waiting for her father to return.

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

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

12. Anna confesses
(a) That she has never loved David.
(b) That she is leaving David when they return.
(c) That she still loves David.
(d) That sometimes she thinks David wants a divorce.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In the garden the narrator prays

2. What does the narrator believe has happened to her country?

3. When the narrator surveys the damage to the cabin

4. The narrator feels that if she does not feed the child inside her, it will

5. What does the narrator refuse to do for David?

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