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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. David claims to have humiliated Anna because
(a) She does not love him.
(b) She enjoys it.
(c) She is unfaithful to him.
(d) She needs to be put in her place.

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

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

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

5. What does the narrator refuse to do for David?
(a) She refuses to appear in his film.
(b) She refuses to take him fishing.
(c) She refuses to talk to Anna for him.
(d) She refuses to kill a fish for him.

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

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

12. 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 has accepted her father's death.
(d) The narrator wants them all to leave.

13. The narrator cannot understand the searchers because
(a) She no longer recognizes French or English.
(b) She no longer hears the sounds from human mouths.
(c) They are too far away to be heard.
(d) They are speaking Spanish.

14. David and Anna joke about
(a) Filming David and Joe fighting.
(b) Filming the narrator escaping in a canoe.
(c) Filming the narrator diving.
(d) Filming David and Joe having sex with the narrator.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the new rules

2. At the end of the chapter the narrator tells Joe

3. Joe confesses that he slept with Anna, but says

4. While the narrator destroys the film, Anna

5. What does the narrator do while Joe and David carry the canoe up to the cabin?

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