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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator plans to hide her pregnancy because
(a) She is afraid of the judgement of others.
(b) She is afraid she will be forced to have another abortion.
(c) She does not want anyone to see her inhuman child.
(d) She plans to escape the island alone.

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

4. While the narrator destroys the film, Anna
(a) Watches without protesting.
(b) Runs to tell David and Joe.
(c) Tries to help her.
(d) Tries to save the film.

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

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

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

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

9. When the narrator surveys the damage to the cabin
(a) She cannot remember how it happened.
(b) She believes the searchers caused it.
(c) She decides she must stay and fix it up again.
(d) She blames it on her animal side.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the narrator's plan at the start of the chapter?

2. As the narrator considers her predicament, she decides that perhaps the searchers

3. At dinner, David and Anna

4. What object does the narrator search for without success before leaving the cabin?

5. As the narrator gardens, she finally

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