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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Approaching the tool shed, the narrator finds
(a) The searchers are waiting for her.
(b) Her father has locked the shed.
(c) She is now forbidden to walk on paths.
(d) She is now forbidden to use tools.

2. The narrator fears touching Joe in his sleep because
(a) He will be angry if she touches him.
(b) He might run away.
(c) He sometimes reacts violently to her touch.
(d) He does not like to be touched by anyone.

3. The narrator seduces Joe because
(a) She loves him after all.
(b) She wants to get pregnant.
(c) She wants to make up with him.
(d) She wants revenge on Anna.

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

5. The narrator believes her mother has become
(a) A ghost.
(b) A blue jay.
(c) A god.
(d) A mushroom.

6. David runs back to the cabin to tell the narrator
(a) The police have found her father drowned.
(b) The police have found her father in another town.
(c) The police were there to arrest her.
(d) The police have still not located her father.

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

8. The narrator is searching for
(a) A gift her mother might have left her.
(b) Her mother's diary.
(c) A book her mother left behind.
(d) Her mother's ghost.

9. The narrator feels the misunderstood face what two possibilities?
(a) They will be forced to explain themselves.
(b) They will be forced to conform to others' ideas of normal.
(c) They will either end up in the hospital or the zoo.
(d) They will be forced to learn a new language.

10. The footprints the narrator thought belonged to her father
(a) Were actually her mother's.
(b) Belonged to a wild animal.
(c) Belonged to one of the searchers.
(d) Were actually her own.

11. The narrator compares Anna to
(a) A pink rabbit.
(b) A striped candy cane.
(c) A burned leech.
(d) A tomato.

12. At dinner, David and Anna
(a) Refuse to speak to one another.
(b) Gang up on the narrator when they feel betrayed by her.
(c) Refuse to speak to the narrator.
(d) Make up after their fight at the lake.

13. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator believes her father

2. Anna confesses

3. Reflecting on David, the narrator feels

4. Finally, the narrator accepts that her parents were

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

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