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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 learn to appreciate with in her solitude?
(a) Art
(b) God
(c) Other people
(d) Politics

2. What is the author's suggestion for renewing a relationship?
(a) Separate for six months
(b) Have another child
(c) Take time to be alone
(d) Start dating someone else for a while

3. What about the author's life makes it more difficult to achieve simplicity?
(a) She has too many children
(b) Her life is subject to public scrutiny
(c) Her husband is unfaithful
(d) She has to work

4. What allows a person to give of oneself?
(a) Being selfless
(b) Maintaining health
(c) Being a woman
(d) Being a child

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

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

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

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

9. How long does it take Anne to slip into a state of ease?
(a) A week
(b) The entire vacation
(c) A few days
(d) A few hours

10. What kind of experience does the author say being alone was for her?
(a) Happy
(b) Lonely
(c) Peaceful
(d) Painful

11. How is the mindset of the second week at the beach different from the city mindset?
(a) It is softer and more playful
(b) It is elusive
(c) It is blank
(d) It is creative

12. To whom will the sea not give its gifts?
(a) To the greedy or impatient
(b) to criminals
(c) To men
(d) To children who can't be still

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

14. Why might women feel resentful about giving?
(a) Because it cost too much
(b) If it is is without purpose
(c) Because men don't
(d) Because no one else does

15. What is a double-sunrise shell?
(a) A shell with red and orange on both sides
(b) A shell found a sunrise
(c) A shell formed from coral
(d) Two shells joined at the center

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What two actions does the author say are not acceptable paths to simplicity?

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

4. To what does the author equate shedding insincerity?

5. Anne says every relationship seems how, at the beginning?

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