2. What does the author stress about day to day living?
(a) It's work and life is not a beach
(b) With the right attitude, it's fun
(c) It is boring
(d) It can be wonderful all the time

3. What does Anne become one with?
(a) The rhythms of the sea
(b) The sand
(c) The people around her
(d) The sun

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

5. What part of a relationship is pure, according to the author?
(a) When eating the other's cooking
(b) The first part
(c) At the end
(d) After ten years

6. From where does the author realize her answers must come?
(a) Her mother
(b) Within herself
(c) Her husband
(d) Her sister

7. For how long will the author be doing the answer in question #1?
(a) Two weeks
(b) Three days
(c) A year
(d) Two months

8. What does the author believe people are designed to do?
(a) Make money
(b) Have children
(c) Have a purpose
(d) Seek companionship and acceptance

9. What does the author say gets in the way of simplification?
(a) Illness
(b) All the details of daily living
(c) Television
(d) Computers

10. The author compares to the channeled whelk to what of hers?
(a) The shape of her life
(b) The design on her watchband
(c) Her pendant
(d) Her family ties

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

12. What does being alone generally suggest in this society?
(a) That one is a genius
(b) That one is rejected if alone
(c) That one is from outer space
(d) That one is special

13. What is the author doing at the beginning of the book?
(a) Getting married
(b) Moving to Europe
(c) Taking a vacation
(d) Visiting her children

14. What does the author learn to appreciate with in her solitude?
(a) Politics
(b) God
(c) Other people
(d) Art

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