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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. During Aubrey's working years, he was a representative for a company that sold products to what kind of professionals?

2. When the narrator describes the families who visit residents of Meadowlake, which people are said to be "without apprehension" (297)?

3. Once Grant gets the idea that Fiona has begun to dislike him, he decides there is now no point in mentioning which topic?

4. A staff member tells Grant that if Fiona does not regain her will to move around, Fiona will have to be moved to which floor?

5. What does Grant do when Aubrey throws himself out of his wheelchair into Fiona's arms?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of work had Aubrey done before he stopped working and what method is used to deliver this information to the reader?

2. What reasons does Marian cite when she is reluctant to agree to Grant's request?

3. What is significant about the way in which Grant's relationship with Jacqui ends?

4. What question does Grant decide there is little point of asking Fiona once her condition degrades after Aubrey's departure from Meadowlake?

5. Discuss an instance when Munro utilizes white space in order to magnify the emotional messages in a certain passage.

6. How is Aubrey's malady different than Fiona's malady?

7. What does Kristy say when Grant asks what is the matter with Fiona?

8. What two details does Grant notice about Marian when he first walks in the door of her home?

9. How is Aubrey's residence at Meadowlake different than Fiona's status there?

10. What does the Meadowlake supervisor tell Grant when she calls him into her office?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Munro’s use of metaphor, simile, imagery, and other literary devices as a means to send particular thematic messages within the narrative of "The Bear Came Over the Mountain."

Essay Topic 2

Sensory details are used frequently by Munro in order to create vivid pictures of each character's progression through the narrative of "The Bear Came Over the Mountain." Choose three scenes in which sensory details are heavily used and discuss how the sensory details used serve Munro’s creation of vivid characters to populate the narrative.

Essay Topic 3

Look carefully at the passages of "The Bear Came Over the Mountain" that describe the nature of Grant’s infidelities over his five decades of marriage to Fiona. What is Munro’s purpose for discussing at length the nature of these experiences?

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