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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. David runs back to the cabin to tell the narrator
(a) The police have found her father drowned.
(b) The police were there to arrest her.
(c) The police have found her father in another town.
(d) The police have still not located her father.

2. The narrator believes her child will be
(a) A kitten.
(b) An angel.
(c) A fur-covered god.
(d) A perfect being.

3. At night the narrator
(a) Lures Joe outside with her.
(b) Faces the fact that her father is dead.
(c) Tries to leave the cabin unnoticed.
(d) Pretends she is asleep when Joe comes in.

4. What is David trying to convince Anna to do?
(a) Skinny-dip with him.
(b) Leave the island together.
(c) Pose naked for his movie camera.
(d) Go fishing with him.

5. At the start of the chapter the narrator theorizes about the concept of
(a) Loyalty to one's country.
(b) Loneliness.
(c) Christ and sacrifice.
(d) Emotion and detachment.

6. The narrator describes Anna as
(a) A shell of a woman.
(b) A whore.
(c) Moody.
(d) An imitation of an imitation woman.

7. The narrator decides that David, Anna, and Joe
(a) Have all become Americans now.
(b) Should stay another week.
(c) Have all become Canadians now.
(d) Should help her find her parents.

8. The narrator seduces Joe because
(a) She loves him after all.
(b) She wants to make up with him.
(c) She wants revenge on Anna.
(d) She wants to get pregnant.

9. Joe wants to know
(a) If the narrator is pregnant.
(b) If the narrator loves him now.
(c) If the narrator is leaving him.
(d) If the narrator is losing her mind.

10. The narrator feels that if she does not feed the child inside her, it will
(a) Cause her parents to leave again.
(b) Begin to feed on her or absorb her.
(c) Invoke the gods against her.
(d) Become angry and try to destroy her.

11. What new rule does the narrator perceive for herself?
(a) She can no longer enter any place that is enclosed.
(b) She can no longer eat from the lake.
(c) She can no longer enter the forest.
(d) She can no longer eat from the forest.

12. What is the narrator's plan at the start of the chapter?
(a) She plans to visit another of her father's marked locations.
(b) She plans to tell the others to leave without her.
(c) She plans to leave the island.
(d) She plans to tell Joe she is leaving him.

13. The narrator feels the misunderstood face what two possibilities?
(a) They will be forced to conform to others' ideas of normal.
(b) They will be forced to learn a new language.
(c) They will either end up in the hospital or the zoo.
(d) They will be forced to explain themselves.

14. After her experience in the water, the narrator feels
(a) She must return to the city.
(b) Her other half is returning.
(c) She has wronged her former lover.
(d) Her place is outside with the animals.

15. The narrator leaves her droppings behind and sleeps in a den because
(a) That is what her parents have asked of her.
(b) That is what she has always done in the woods.
(c) She cannot remember what humans do anymore.
(d) That is what animals do.

Short Answer Questions

1. The rules are over because

2. David reveals that Anna

3. What does the narrator do while Joe and David carry the canoe up to the cabin?

4. The narrator hallucinates that her body and the trees

5. The narrator believes the others have locked the cabin door to

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