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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What word from Chapter 5 means relating or denoting the writing of letters?
(a) Levity.
(b) Illusory.
(c) Articulate.
(d) Epistolary.

2. What word from Chapter 5 refers to humor or frivolity, especially in the treatment of a serious matter?
(a) Allusion.
(b) Irony.
(c) Levity.
(d) Cultivation.

3. Where is the author when she describes a man showing her a picture of his wife in Chapter 5?
(a) In her friend's house.
(b) In a convenient store.
(c) In the bar of a restaurant.
(d) In a seminar meeting.

4. What word from Chapter 4 refers to a sentimental longing for the past?
(a) Recompense.
(b) Cultivation.
(c) Nostalgia.
(d) Allusion.

5. What does the author claim "isn't a cure for feeling, it is a clean displacement of effort, will, and disappointment" in Chapter 4?
(a) "Reading the newspaper."
(b) "Watching tennis."
(c) "Watching football."
(d) "Writing."

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 1, the author begins with the statement, "When you are alone and too tired even to turn on any of your devices, you let yourself linger in" what?

2. Where is the film Beau Travail set?

3. What color is described repeatedly throughout Chapter 5?

4. The author writes in Chapter 7, "You are not sick, you are not injured-- you ache for" what?

5. What does the author describe the storm carrying her through in Chapter 5?

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