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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Moon Shell.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What about the author's life makes it more difficult to achieve simplicity?
(a) Her husband is unfaithful
(b) She has too many children
(c) Her life is subject to public scrutiny
(d) She has to work

2. What effect does solitude have on people?
(a) Boredom
(b) Enlightenment
(c) Lonliness
(d) different for each individual

3. What pains and amuses the author about married women and the church?
(a) They have to sit with their husbands
(b) Married women are rarely canonized
(c) They can't become priests
(d) They don't have time for church

4. What is a channeled whelk?
(a) A type of seaweed
(b) A type of coral
(c) A small snail-like creature
(d) Where boats come to the harbor

5. Why might women feel resentful about giving?
(a) Because no one else does
(b) Because men don't
(c) Because it cost too much
(d) If it is is without purpose

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of experience does the author say being alone was for her?

2. What is a moon shell?

3. What does Anne become one with?

4. What does living life an on island do for the author's thoughts?

5. What allows a person to give of oneself?

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