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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through A Few Shells.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say each person must develop on his/her own?
(a) One's own attitudes
(b) One's own talents
(c) One's own personality
(d) One's own beliefs

2. To whom will the sea not give its gifts?
(a) to criminals
(b) To the greedy or impatient
(c) To children who can't be still
(d) To men

3. What does the author suggest people living in society are like?
(a) Grains of sand, crowded and gritty
(b) Islands
(c) Waves
(d) Trees, with branches reaching out to each other

4. What types of habits does the daily life of marriage have?
(a) Good and bad
(b) Feminine and masculine
(c) Work and play
(d) Strong and weak

5. What does the author say the perfect day with her visitor represents?
(a) Being alone when someone is with you
(b) The give and take of relationships
(c) Being too polite to say no
(d) Being able to ignore someone politely

Short Answer Questions

1. Why must a new community be created in a middle aged relationship?

2. What pains and amuses the author about married women and the church?

3. Why might women feel resentful about giving?

4. What does romantic love turn to, according to the author?

5. What about space around an object changes it?

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