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Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape

Margaret Atwood, Death by Landscape

Read Death by Landscape and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Then “submit” your work.

1. Lois cultivates landscape portraits because

she always wanted to go on another canoe trip.

she is seeking closure after Lucy’s disappearance.

she misses Camp Manitou.

her husband likes them.

2. Lois and Lucy differ in all of the following ways except

their hometowns.

the state of their parents’ marriage.

their appearance.

their canoeing experience.

3. On the canoe trip, Atwood foreshadows Lucy’s disappearance with all of the following except

two loons, calling mournfully to each other.

high winds as the girls begin their hike.

Pat’s advice that the girls “be careful” as they hike to Lookout.

brighter stars, indicating bad weather ahead.

4. How does Cappie try to come to terms with Lucy’s disappearance?

She insinuates that Lois pushed Lucy over the cliff.

She holds an all-camp bonfire to discuss it.

She calls the police.

She organizes another canoe trip.

5. Where does Lois believe Lucy is now?

buried in a coffin

washed away in the sea

alive, in the landscape portraits of her apartment

back in Chicago, living a different life