The River: A Novel Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 27:

1.

What seems to be the main reasons that Jack kills the caribou? (from Chapters Fourteen and Fifteen)

It seems to have no mother, and is likely to have a lot of meat on its bones.

He wants to keep it from warning Pierre with its cries, and it will feed him, Wynn, and Maia.

It seems to have no mother, and is not likely to survive.

It is not likely to survive, and he wants to make Wynn angry.

2.

Who is Pierre? (from Chapters Five and Six)

A park ranger who warns Jack and Wynn about the fire.

A man encountered by Jack and Wynn who says his daughter has gone missing.

A man encountered by Jack and Wynn who says his wife has gone missing.

One of the drunken Texans.

3.

Why is it significant that the narrative portrays Shane as speaking to Jack on the day of the funeral? (from Chapter Twenty-Two)

Earlier in the narrative, Shane had been described as refusing to talk to Jack at all in the aftermath of the death of Jack's mother.

Earlier in the narrative, Shane had been described as falling almost completely silent in the aftermath of the death of Jack's mother.

After the death of Jack's mother, Jack had said he did not want to talk to his father at all.

It was Jack's mother's last wish that Shane make peace with Jack.

4.

Who shoots Wynn? (from Chapters Nineteen – Twenty-One)

Jack.

Brent.

JD.

Pierre.

5.

As Maia talks about Pierre, what qualities of her life does she suggest trigger his resentment? (from Chapter Eighteen )

Her large family and her lack of student loans.

Her family’s wealth, and her success as a fiction writer.

Her success in academic publishing, and the fact that her family resents him.

Her family’s wealth, and her success in academic publishing.

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