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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What information does Anna share with the narrator?
(a) That David is in love with the narrator.
(b) That she and David are not happily married.
(c) That she has frequently been unfaithful to David.
(d) That David's flirtation is really all about her, not the narrator.

2. The narrator tells Paul
(a) That her father is away on a trip.
(b) That her father is probably dead.
(c) That her father has returned to the island.
(d) That her father has gone insane.

3. At the end of the chapter the narrator describes herself as
(a) Numb and detached.
(b) Bleeding and in pain.
(c) Without words to describe her feelings.
(d) A magician.

4. In the morning, the narrator and Joe discuss
(a) Who will move out of their shared apartment.
(b) The date they will set for their wedding.
(c) The narrator's desire to have a child.
(d) David and Anna's marriage.

5. The narrator discovers Anna
(a) Weeding the garden for her.
(b) Sneaking a cigarette outside.
(c) Putting on her make-up early in the morning.
(d) Digging through her old scrapbooks.

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

7. Instead of reading or playing bridge, the group decides to
(a) Have a bonfire.
(b) Hunt for the next day's breakfast.
(c) Smoke pot out by the lake.
(d) Tell each other stories about their childhoods.

8. The narrator's insistence that does not know the right languages or dialects supports the idea that
(a) She was isolated from French speakers as a child.
(b) She struggles to interpret foreigners.
(c) She struggles to communicate with others.
(d) She has never been a good student.

9. What does the narrator notice about the fountain in town?
(a) It is in a different place than she remembers.
(b) The dolphins are missing.
(c) It is not as big as she remembers it.
(d) The cherub in the middle is missing half its face.

10. While the narrator shops, her companions
(a) Decide to return to the city.
(b) Drink beer in the motel.
(c) Have found a clue about her father.
(d) Find transportation to the cabin.

11. Who arrives on the island at the start of the chapter?
(a) Paul and Bill Malmstrom.
(b) Paul and Evans.
(c) Paul and his wife.
(d) Paul and the narrator's father.

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

13. The fishing trip is cut short when
(a) The group decides to go back and cook the fish.
(b) David and Anna begin fighting.
(c) Two Americans arrive and begin to fish, too.
(d) They discover they have no more worms.

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

15. At the end of the chapter the narrator reveals the attitude that
(a) She prefers to tell people her feelings.
(b) She wants to be in a good marriage.
(c) She believes she is her brother's keeper.
(d) She prefers to let others take care of their own problems.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator thinks she cannot communicate with Joe because

3. What is suggested by the fact that the narrator describes Anna as her best woman friend, though they've know each other only two months?

4. The others decide they want to

5. David teaches

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