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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the author forget when she's in the city?
(a) The stars
(b) Clean water
(c) Clean air
(d) The rhythm and the pace of the sea

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

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

4. 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

5. How does Anne decorate her beach cottage?
(a) With gifts from the sea
(b) She doesn't deorate her cottage
(c) With her paintings
(d) With local handicrafts

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

7. What is a channeled whelk?
(a) Where boats come to the harbor
(b) A type of seaweed
(c) A small snail-like creature
(d) A type of coral

8. What can one-and-only moments bring to one's life?
(a) Danger
(b) Much needed respite from daily living
(c) Excitment
(d) Peace

9. What does the author believe most people need?
(a) Aloneness
(b) Friendship
(c) Love
(d) Children

10. What effect does solitude have on people?
(a) Enlightenment
(b) Lonliness
(c) Boredom
(d) different for each individual

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

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

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

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

15. What should women do with some of the time freed up in modern times?
(a) Volunteer
(b) Work
(c) Use it to feed and nourish the center
(d) Have a hobby

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the author feel about clearing her mind and focusing solely on the sea?

2. What does the author believe people are designed to do?

3. During the second week at the sea what returns to Anne?

4. How have the author's "roles" in life effected her life?

5. What about the author's life makes it more difficult to achieve simplicity?

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