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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. What does the narrator find hanging from a tree?
(a) Her father.
(b) A dead heron.
(c) A dead fish.
(d) A torn-up doll.

2. The narrator remembers a tugboat with a house on it that appealed to her because
(a) The people on the boat seemed to be having fun.
(b) She could escape her parents with a boat like that.
(c) Her goal was to live on the water.
(d) She could move any time she wished, taking only the people she wanted to be around.

3. The description of the tourists who visit the town implies
(a) The narrator appreciates their contribution to the town.
(b) The narrator feels hatred and hostility toward them.
(c) The narrator is indifferent to their presence.
(d) The narrator feels they are imposters.

4. While the narrator shops, her companions
(a) Decide to return to the city.
(b) Drink beer in the motel.
(c) Have found a clue about her father.
(d) Find transportation to the cabin.

5. When the women discuss birth control, the narrator suggests
(a) That women had defied men by refusing to take the piill.
(b) That Joe and David did not care about the physical risks to the women.
(c) That women had no choice but to risk their health by taking the pill.
(d) That sex without risk or consequences is unnatural.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the morning, the narrator and Joe discuss

2. The narrator believes her father

3. The narrator's description of the city they drive through is

4. The narrator's insistence that does not know the right languages or dialects supports the idea that

5. The narrator reports that she is beginning to suspect

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe David's view of his marriage.

2. What is the narrator's revelation about Christ?

3. Why does the narrator assume the old town priest is dead?

4. How does the narrator now view her parents?

5. Why does the narrator refuse to believe David and Anna's story about her father?

6. What change can be observed in the narrator at the start of the chapter?

7. Both of the childhood rhymes mentioned in the chapter have to do with what subject? Why are they important?

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

9. What is significant about the narrator's description of the herons?

10. What does the narrator decide about marriage at the end of the chapter?

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