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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does age bring with it, according to the author?
(a) The need for balance
(b) The need to shed things
(c) Painful joints
(d) The need for closure

2. What kind of container does she carry to the beach everyday?
(a) A canteen
(b) A terry cloth bag
(c) A leather purse
(d) A faded straw bag

3. What does the author say is natural and part of the process of life?
(a) Eating
(b) Enlightenment
(c) Transformation
(d) Dying

4. The author asserts that to expect duration in one's life and relationships is what?
(a) Common
(b) Insane
(c) Unrealistic
(d) Reasonable

5. How does the author see the oyster shell?
(a) Beautiful and delicate
(b) Humble, awkward, and ugly
(c) As a cover for a pearl
(d) Strange and alien

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beach, what is the first step to achieving simplicity?

2. What does the Argonauta represent to Anne?

3. What does the author learn to appreciate with in her solitude?

4. Anne says every relationship seems how, at the beginning?

5. What does the author say the inner point of a moon shell does?

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