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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator finally tells Anna
(a) That she wants to leave the island.
(b) That she has been married and has a child.
(c) That her father is probably dead.
(d) That Joe has proposed.

2. The narrator is trying to decide
(a) Whether she loves Joe.
(b) Whether she loved her first husband.
(c) Whether she is falling in love with David.
(d) Whether she loved her parents.

3. What were the subjects of the narrator's drawings in her scrapbooks?
(a) Women and Easter eggs.
(b) Woodland animals.
(c) Birds.
(d) Cave paintings.

4. After reviewing her father's papers, the narrator decides
(a) Her father had been hired to write another report.
(b) Her father had been an artist too.
(c) Her father had some secret purpose she must discover.
(d) Her father had gone insane.

5. The narrator reveals that she has not visited her parents here because
(a) She always felt out of place here.
(b) There would be too much to forgive.
(c) There would be too many explanations.
(d) She thought her parents would live forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. The fishing trip is cut short when

2. What does the narrator's mother tell her when she asks where dead people go?

3. Because Anna is angry with him, David comments on

4. The narrator reports that she is beginning to suspect

5. At the end of the chapter the narrator describes herself as

Short Essay Questions

1. What is suggested by Anna's statements about her make-up?

2. What childhood memory interrupts the narrator's feeling of complicity in the heron's death?

3. In what way is Anna like "a burned leech?"

4. What is suggested by the group's ignorance about nature?

5. Why do David and Joe want to avoid the narrator's search for her father.

6. What confusion seizes Joe while he is sleeping?

7. Why does Joe's marriage proposal remind the narrator of her first wedding day?

8. What change has occurred in the narrator's views on fishing and hunting?

9. What attitude does the narrator express about the emotions of others?

10. Why is the narrator bothered by the new road, and the ease with which she is able to arrive at her destination?

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