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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. The others decide they want to
(a) Hunt for bears.
(b) Continue fishing.
(c) Stay on for the rest of the week.
(d) Help the narrator find her father.
2. The narrator's insistence that does not know the right languages or dialects supports the idea that
(a) She has never been a good student.
(b) She was isolated from French speakers as a child.
(c) She struggles to interpret foreigners.
(d) She struggles to communicate with others.
3. As she travels through the town, the narrator feels
(a) Overwhelmed with love.
(b) Angry that so much has changed.
(c) Sorry that she ever left for the city.
(d) No nostalgia or emotion of any kind.
4. What were the subjects of the narrator's drawings in her scrapbooks?
(a) Birds.
(b) Cave paintings.
(c) Women and Easter eggs.
(d) Woodland animals.
5. The narrator tells Paul
(a) That her father has gone insane.
(b) That her father is probably dead.
(c) That her father has returned to the island.
(d) That her father is away on a trip.
Short Answer Questions
1. At the start of the chapter, the narrator resolves
2. David slips in and out of "a yokel dialect," which implies
3. The others agree to wait at the motel because
4. At the end of the chapter the narrator reveals the attitude that
5. Instead of reading or playing bridge, the group decides to
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe David's view of his marriage.
2. What does the narrator reveal about the lake and river?
3. How does the narrator describe the "lost" part of herself during her encounter with Joe?
4. Why does the narrator decide to return to the city?
5. What childhood memory interrupts the narrator's feeling of complicity in the heron's death?
6. What kind of relationship does the narrator seem to have with Joe?
7. Why does the narrator destroy David's film?
8. What does the narrator decide about marriage at the end of the chapter?
9. What is significant about the narrator's description of the herons?
10. Both of the childhood rhymes mentioned in the chapter have to do with what subject? Why are they important?
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