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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. The narrator hallucinates that her body and the trees
(a) Have turned to stone.
(b) Have grown together.
(c) Have turned against one another.
(d) Have become transparent and "melt."

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

4. The narrator's body remembering how to canoe and dive signals
(a) Her inability to commune with nature.
(b) Her age.
(c) Her desire to leave the city.
(d) Her return to her former self.

5. The narrator rejects David's offer to
(a) Help her paddle the canoe.
(b) Help her fish for dinner.
(c) Help her sell the cabin and land.
(d) Take her back to town.

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

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

8. When the narrator meets the "Americans" she learns
(a) They are transplants from Kansas.
(b) They are actually Canadians and thought she was American.
(c) They are angry about sharing their fishing spot.
(d) They are actually French and cannot communicate with her.

9. 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.

10. The next morning the narrator begins to feel
(a) Her powers are leaving her again.
(b) That she cannot stay on the island any longer.
(c) Her powers have changed and established new rules for her.
(d) Her parents have come into the cabin.

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

12. 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 does not love him.
(c) She says she will get pregnant.
(d) She says she knows he slept with Anna.

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

14. What is the narrator's plan at the start of the chapter?
(a) She plans to visit another of her father's marked locations.
(b) She plans to tell the others to leave without her.
(c) She plans to tell Joe she is leaving him.
(d) She plans to leave the island.

15. 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 plans to escape the island alone.
(d) She does not want anyone to see her inhuman child.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the garden the narrator prays

2. The narrator believes her mother has become

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

4. At night the narrator

5. The narrator awakes to the sound of

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