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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The repetition of the word "echoes" in the last paragraph suggests
(a) Repeating or revisiting the past.
(b) Making the same mistakes over and over again.
(c) Refusing to hear others properly.
(d) Having one's own words thrown back at them.

2. The narrator and her companions are traveling in
(a) The United States.
(b) Canada.
(c) France.
(d) Mexico.

3. David teaches
(a) English as a Second Language.
(b) Communication classes.
(c) Politics.
(d) Broadcasting classes.

4. David suggests Americans want the land because
(a) They have always wanted to own Canada too.
(b) They have run out of land for their factories.
(c) They have used up all their fresh water and will have to move north.
(d) They can not settle the wilderness by themselves.

5. The men take turns taking footage of the wood they have chopped rather than letting the women film them because
(a) They are afraid the women will break the camera.
(b) They can not wait for the women to finish their gardening.
(c) They only want males to appear in the film.
(d) They do not want the women to know what they are filming.

6. What does the narrator say she should have studied instead of art?
(a) Botany.
(b) Linguistics.
(c) Psychology.
(d) History.

7. David blames the changes in the town and the negative outcomes on
(a) Changing times.
(b) Changing values.
(c) Fascism.
(d) Americans and capitalism.

8. The narrator's attitude toward pain--if it hurts invent a different pain--indicates
(a) She is unable to deal with any pain.
(b) She is confrontational when dealing with pain.
(c) She is a masochist.
(d) She is currently looking for a diversion from pain in her life.

9. The narrator believes Joe first liked her because
(a) She has distanced herself from her family.
(b) She does not drink alcohol.
(c) She expresses no emotion.
(d) She is an artist.

10. The narrator describes the lake as
(a) Faded and defaced.
(b) Blue and cool as redemption.
(c) A haze of tears and vomit.
(d) Green and inviting.

11. As she travels through the town, the narrator feels
(a) Angry that so much has changed.
(b) No nostalgia or emotion of any kind.
(c) Sorry that she ever left for the city.
(d) Overwhelmed with love.

12. The narrator reveals that she has not visited her parents here because
(a) She always felt out of place here.
(b) There would be too much to forgive.
(c) She thought her parents would live forever.
(d) There would be too many explanations.

13. The narrator has identified two different women in town known as Madame because
(a) She remembers them as older, married women.
(b) None of the women in town had names when she was a child.
(c) She cannot remember anyone's name anymore.
(d) Madame is a common name in Canada.

14. What does the narrator find hanging from a tree?
(a) A dead fish.
(b) Her father.
(c) A dead heron.
(d) A torn-up doll.

15. What is the narrator afraid will happen if she leaves her scrapbooks out around the others?
(a) She is afraid the others will judge her drawings.
(b) She is afraid the others will guess what has happened to her father.
(c) She is afraid the others will spy on her.
(d) She is afraid the others will think her family is odd.

Short Answer Questions

1. Reviewing her father's papers, the narrator discovers

2. The narrator claims to rehearse

3. The narrator compares Anna's cries to

4. At the start of the chapter, the narrator resolves

5. The narrator takes her guests to visit what local oddity?

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