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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens between the narrator and Joe while picking blueberries?
(a) Joe breaks up with the narrator.
(b) The narrator tells Joe she is returning to her husband.
(c) The narrator tells Joe she is in love with someone else.
(d) Joe proposes and the narrator refuses.

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

3. What were the subjects of the narrator's drawings in her scrapbooks?
(a) Birds.
(b) Woodland animals.
(c) Women and Easter eggs.
(d) Cave paintings.

4. What is Bill Malmstrom's purpose in visiting the island?
(a) He wants to scare the narrator into leaving.
(b) He wants to search for the narrator's father.
(c) He wants to buy the narrator's property.
(d) He wants to seize the land for the government.

5. In the flashback about her mother, the narrator reveals
(a) That nothing can keep children safe.
(b) That bears were threatening the island.
(c) That her mother was afraid of the bear, but did not show it when she protected her children.
(d) That her mother was too afraid to protect her children.

Short Answer Questions

1. The repetition of the word "echoes" in the last paragraph suggests

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

3. When Paul sees the narrator

4. Though the narrator has memorized survival guides, she realizes that it is still possible

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

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