Surfacing Quizzes

Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Surfacing? Put your knowledge to the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. The narrator and her friends find a dead animal strung up in the woods. What was the animal?


A fish
A heron
A squirrel
A bear
Q. When the narrator decides to revert to more animalistic behavior toward the end of the novel, what does she choose to live in?


A birdhouse
A doghouse
A tree house
A lair
Q. Where is the narrator when she has her big epiphany about parts of her past that she had been suppressing and misremembering?


At the gym
Swimming
In bed
In the shower
Q. What does the narrator thinks she sees below her when she goes diving by the cliff?


Shamu
A barracuda
Her father's body
The fetus she had aborted
Q. What life change is the narrator looking forward to at the end of the novel?


Pregnancy
Menopause
Getting married
Becoming a professor