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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How can a homemaker avoid feeling dispensable?
(a) Keep having children
(b) Fulfillment of spirit
(c) Have a fun hobby
(d) Have work outside the home

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

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

4. What does the author suggest people living in society are like?
(a) Islands
(b) Waves
(c) Grains of sand, crowded and gritty
(d) Trees, with branches reaching out to each other

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

6. What does the author say everyone wants out of love?
(a) To be faithful
(b) To be taken care of
(c) To not be bored
(d) To be the only one loved by a person

7. During the second week at the sea what returns to Anne?
(a) Her husband
(b) Her children
(c) The ability to think
(d) Her tan from last year

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

9. What does Anne say is valid as far as one-and-only moments?
(a) They're valid if carefully controlled
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(c) They're valid for the first five years
(d) They're valid for children

10. How have the author's "roles" in life effected her life?
(a) Fried her brain
(b) Made her tired
(c) Made her very happy
(d) Takes a toll on the author's spirit

11. What does the channeled whelk represent to the author?
(a) An existence of simplicity
(b) Designs of man
(c) Knitting a sock
(d) Convoluted schemes

12. To what does the author equate shedding insincerity?
(a) Facing the morning sun
(b) Taking off a mask
(c) Being holy
(d) Breathing deeply

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. At the beginning of a relationship what kind of world exist for two people?

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

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

5. Who preached against the dangers of multiplicity in the third century?

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