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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is a moon shell?
(a) A cresent shaped shell
(b) A shell found on the full moon
(c) A shell that makes one depressed
(d) A snail's shell that has a symmetrical face

2. What complicates a pure relationship?
(a) Children
(b) Work
(c) Religion
(d) Contact with the world

3. What does the author say is required of an artist?
(a) To give of self in small drops
(b) To be around a lot of people
(c) To not care
(d) To be patient

4. According to the author, what is seen as failure in a relationship?
(a) To stay together too long
(b) To not have children
(c) To not maintain the original pattern
(d) To break up

5. Anne says every relationship seems how, at the beginning?
(a) Tense
(b) Frustrating
(c) Glorious
(d) Simple

6. What kind of atmosphere between people does a beach create?
(a) Suspicious
(b) Tense
(c) Carefree
(d) Shy

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

8. What does a married woman's concerns keep her from doing?
(a) Being independent
(b) Having a creative, contemplative or saintly life
(c) Going out with lots of men
(d) Being selfish

9. What does the author say about one and only moments in a relationship?
(a) They aren't healthy
(b) They are not permanent
(c) They are to be avoided
(d) They don't exist

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

11. What does the spell in question #18 do to Anne?
(a) Makes her invent things
(b) Gives her great ideas for books to write
(c) Revives the dormant ability to relax
(d) Gives her the ability to talk to those around her

12. What will the moon shell placed on her desk in Connecticut do for the author?
(a) It will be a reminder
(b) Get the desk sandy
(c) Nothing
(d) Smell bad

13. How do people smile at the beach?
(a) Like children
(b) They don't, too sandy with the wind
(c) Carefully
(d) Slyly

14. What is the author's suggestion for renewing a relationship?
(a) Have another child
(b) Separate for six months
(c) Take time to be alone
(d) Start dating someone else for a while

15. Why does the author believe people often break up a romantic relationship?
(a) People believe a new relationship will solve their problems
(b) Fighting about money and children
(c) Infidelity or too much flirting
(d) Bad sex

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author seek to do at the sea?

2. What casts a powerful spell on Anne?

3. How does Anne feel about her roles in life?

4. What did Anne experience after the good-bye?

5. What removes the desire to think or read within Anne?

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