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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. Who interrupts the narrator in the outhouse and why?
(a) Paul, with news about her father.
(b) Joe, insisting that they talk about their relationship.
(c) Anna, asking her if she is okay.
(d) David, telling her she must be caught.

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

3. At the start of the chapter, the narrator resolves
(a) That she has to leave the island immediately.
(b) That she has done all she can, and no one can expect more from her.
(c) That she will marry Joe if he asks her.
(d) That she must keep looking for her father no matter what.

4. What question does the narrator recall asking her husband on their wedding day?
(a) Do you feel better?
(b) Aren't I good enough for you?
(c) Why can't we just go on like before?
(d) Why are you doing this to me?

5. At the end of the chapter the narrator describes herself as
(a) A magician.
(b) Without words to describe her feelings.
(c) Numb and detached.
(d) Bleeding and in pain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What new structure has invaded the narrator's hometown?

2. At the end of the chapter the narrator reveals the attitude that

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?

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

5. What does the narrator feel is her first mistake during her visit to the store?

Short Essay Questions

1. When the narrator discovers that the other campers are Canadian, not American as she had suspected, what new fear grips her.

2. What is significant about the fact that the others have locked the narrator out of the cabin?

3. Why does the narrator destroy the contents of the cabin?

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

5. What kind of relationship does the narrator seem to have with Joe?

6. How does the narrator now view her parents?

7. Why does the narrator believe there are rules for what she can and cannot do on the island?

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

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

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

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