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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does one go wrong in desiring love, according to the author?
(a) When one wants to keep exclusivity forever
(b) When being jealousy
(c) When wanting someone already married
(d) When wanting the person with them all the time

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

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

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

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

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

7. What are the author's ambitions for the days to come?
(a) To write the first draft of a book
(b) To read fourteen short stories
(c) To do nothing
(d) To complete an array of simple and pleasurable tasks

8. At the beginning of a relationship what kind of world exist for two people?
(a) A happier world
(b) A
(c) A wider world
(d) An exciting world

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

10. What does the author say the inner point of a moon shell does?
(a) Contains the meat
(b) Stares at her
(c) Breaks easily
(d) Changes colors

11. What kind of container does she carry to the beach everyday?
(a) A canteen
(b) A faded straw bag
(c) A terry cloth bag
(d) A leather purse

12. What does the author consider one of the most important techniques for living?
(a) Eating well
(b) Breathing
(c) Pray
(d) Simplification

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

14. What two actions does the author say are not acceptable paths to simplicity?
(a) Having more than three children
(b) Being famous
(c) Total renunciation or total acceptance of the world
(d) Becoming rich

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne say is valid as far as one-and-only moments?

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

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

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

5. What does the author suggest people living in society are like?

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