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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 David want to do with the fish in the morning?
(a) Cook it over an open fire.
(b) Film it for Random Samples.
(c) Take a photo with it.
(d) Bury it for fertilizer.

2. In school pictures, the narrator's face was always
(a) Blurred or turned away.
(b) Front and center.
(c) Smiling and happy.
(d) Serious and frowning.

3. What is suggested by the fact that the narrator describes Anna as her best woman friend, though they've know each other only two months?
(a) The narrator does not have many female friends.
(b) The narrator and Anna have actually known each other much longer.
(c) The narrator and Anna have many things in common.
(d) The narrator does not like people.

4. The narrator's attitude toward pain--if it hurts invent a different pain--indicates
(a) She is unable to deal with any pain.
(b) She is a masochist.
(c) She is currently looking for a diversion from pain in her life.
(d) She is confrontational when dealing with pain.

5. The narrator describes the lake as
(a) Faded and defaced.
(b) Green and inviting.
(c) Blue and cool as redemption.
(d) A haze of tears and vomit.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator finds it difficult to enter the lake because

2. The narrator takes her guests to visit what local oddity?

3. At the end of the chapter, the author compares an unborn child to

4. Who interrupts the narrator in the outhouse and why?

5. The narrator believes that her childhood made her

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator believe all her friends are "Americans" now?

2. Describe the narrator's relationship with other children.

3. The narrator says that living on the island felt "normal" to her, which suggests what about her personality?

4. Describe the narrator's flashback about the birth of her child.

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

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

7. How does David feel about Americans?

8. Describe David's view of his marriage.

9. Describe the narrator's relationship with her former lover.

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

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