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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Beach at My Back.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author say might sacrifice the present in honor of the future?
(a) Trying to balance the individual against the whole
(b) Trying to put off too many actions
(c) Trying to ignore the day and always think about next week
(d) Trying to live in the past

2. To what does the author compare the inner point of the moon shell?
(a) Pregnancy
(b) A marriage ring
(c) The circle of life
(d) To a pupil of the eye

3. What is Anne afraid of when she is alone and feeling peaceful?
(a) That she will get angry
(b) That she will die
(c) Being interrupted by another person
(d) That it will end

4. How does the freedom of being a whole person effect a relationship?
(a) It usually breaks up a marriage
(b) The role of the person adds a different facet
(c) It makes a relationship stormy
(d) It causes equality in a relationship

5. What allows a person to give of oneself?
(a) Maintaining health
(b) Being selfless
(c) Being a woman
(d) Being a child

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne believe space around an object can do?

2. What does the author say a woman must discover for herself?

3. What is the relationship of the Argonauta to its shell?

4. Men, says the author, has more opportunity at work than women to do what?

5. What are the author's ambitions for the days to come?

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