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The Bear Came Over the Mountain Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 157 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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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 term is used to describe Fiona's mother's political stance?
(a) Far-right.
(b) Far-left.
(c) Moderate.
(d) Alt-right.

2. What adjective is used to describe the size of the central space at Meadowlake?
(a) Austere.
(b) Large.
(c) Cozy.
(d) Sterile.

3. At the time of the narrative's events, Grant is writing a book about myths of what type?
(a) Roman.
(b) Norse.
(c) Japanese.
(d) Greek.

4. What advice does Kristy offer to Grant at the end of his first visit to see Fiona at Meadowlake?
(a) Visit only once per week.
(b) Take it day by day.
(c) Keep calm and love on.
(d) Bring photographs to visits.

5. What word had been scrawled across his office door at the same time Grant received the letter?
(a) Rat.
(b) Louse.
(c) Fink.
(d) Philanderer.

Short Answer Questions

1. A supervisor at Meadowlake tells Grant that the patients on which floor have separate rules than the patients on Fiona's floor?

2. On page 284, Grant has a dream in which he shows what object to a colleague and friend?

3. During Fiona's college years, she is described as seeing politics as a what?

4. Grant had accepted Fiona's proposal of marriage because she had possessed "the spark of" (276) what?

5. Fiona's father had been what kind of doctor during her youth?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what way does Munro use the dream motif to reveal information about Grant?

2. What advice does Kristy finally give to Grant when he keeps asking the same question over and over?

3. What job had Fiona done prior to taking early retirement?

4. In what ways does Grant consider his own past infidelities to be different from those of other "husbands and fathers" (284)?

5. What question does Grant keep asking Kristy over and over during his first visit to see Fiona at Meadowlake?

6. How and when did Fiona and Grant first meet?

7. What comment does Fiona make on the way to Meadowlake that makes Grant want to turn the car around?

8. What is the function of Grant's colleague within the context of the story?

9. Who is Kristy?

10. In what month does Fiona move into Meadowlake and why?

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