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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When the narrator visits her mother in the hospital, she informs her mother that
(a) She is divorced and has abandoned her child.
(b) She will not be attending the funeral.
(c) She is never returning to Canada.
(d) She is living with a man who is not her husband.

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

3. What change is developing in the narrator's relationship with Joe?
(a) The narrator is beginning is to see that she no longer wants to be in the relationship.
(b) The narrator has decided that she wants a marriage like David and Anna's.
(c) The narrator has decided she loves Joe.
(d) The narrator is willing to wait to see if she loves him.

4. What burdensome object has David insisted on bringing in the canoe?
(a) His movie camera.
(b) His raincoat.
(c) His radio.
(d) His suitcase.

5. The fact that the narrator cannot speak the language of her hometown suggests
(a) She does not care about communicating with her parents' friends.
(b) She rejects the idea that she is French Canadian.
(c) She feels foreign.
(d) She does not fully identify with it, and does not feel understood.

Short Answer Questions

1. The men take turns taking footage of the wood they have chopped rather than letting the women film them because

2. The narrator says her father's house is difficult to find because

3. The narrator's insistence that does not know the right languages or dialects supports the idea that

4. David slips in and out of "a yokel dialect," which implies

5. Anna hides her face from David because

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