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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What reason does the narrator give Joe for refusing to sleep with him?
(a) She says she does not love him.
(b) She says she is working out her problems alone.
(c) She says she knows he slept with Anna.
(d) She says she will get pregnant.

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

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

4. What does the narrator do before leaving the cabin?
(a) She finishes the drawings for her children's book.
(b) She destroys the clothing, blankets, dishes, and papers.
(c) She creates a new map for her father.
(d) She leaves a note behind for Paul and Joe.

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

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

7. What is causing the narrator physical pain?
(a) She has food poisoning.
(b) She is having a migraine headache.
(c) She has the flu.
(d) She is suffering from hunger cramps.

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

9. The narrator cleanses herself of her human skin by
(a) Bathing in the lake and leaving her clothes behind.
(b) Harshly scrubbing her skin with a scrub brush.
(c) Taking a long shower in the cabin.
(d) Refusing to eat or drink.

10. At night the narrator
(a) Faces the fact that her father is dead.
(b) Pretends she is asleep when Joe comes in.
(c) Tries to leave the cabin unnoticed.
(d) Lures Joe outside with her.

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

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

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

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

15. The narrator describes the child inside her as
(a) The demon.
(b) The fur god with horns and a tail.
(c) The nature child.
(d) The American god with horns and a tail.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator hallucinates that her body and the trees

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

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

4. When the narrator meets the "Americans" she learns

5. The narrator's body remembering how to canoe and dive signals

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