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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. To what does Anne compare saying good-bye?
(a) A sad moment
(b) A happy moment
(c) An amputation
(d) A necessary moment

3. What happens to the pencils she carries?
(a) The leads break
(b) She loses them
(c) They get dull from use
(d) They get wet and don't work well

4. How does Anne feel about her roles in life?
(a) She is indifferent to them
(b) She deeply desires to maintain them
(c) She resents them
(d) They bore her

5. What is Anne's main goal?
(a) To obtain enlightenment
(b) To be rich
(c) To obtain peace
(d) To publish a lot of books

6. Why does she believe people seek meaningless activities when there's nothing to do?
(a) To fill the void of time
(b) To keep from thinking
(c) To keep from remembering something bad
(d) So they don't get bored

7. Why does the author have to rush in the city?
(a) To take her children places
(b) To accomplish myriad tasks
(c) To get ahead
(d) To run her business

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

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

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

11. How does the author see the architecture of the channeled whelk?
(a) It is dull
(b) As a seamless work of art
(c) It is ugly, but functional
(d) It is haphazard

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

13. What can one do in solitude?
(a) One may let go
(b) One may concentrate
(c) One may be quiet
(d) One may feed the spirit

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

15. What pains and amuses the author about married women and the church?
(a) They can't become priests
(b) Married women are rarely canonized
(c) They have to sit with their husbands
(d) They don't have time for church

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author stress about day to day living?

2. How long does it take Anne to slip into a state of ease?

3. What kind of container does she carry to the beach everyday?

4. How does the author think one's true identity is found?

5. What does Anne believe is possible at the beach as far as shelter is concerned?

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