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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Anne's feelings change as she prepares to leave the beach?
(a) Peace for chaos
(b) Happiness for depression
(c) Balance for restlessness
(d) Melancholy for hope

2. What does the author plan to do about her life upon returning home?
(a) Pick-up where she left off
(b) Kick her grown children out
(c) Try for more balance
(d) Tell her husband to change

3. How does she relate time to the dance?
(a) Not dancing is being in the now
(b) Dancing hard is hanging onto the past
(c) Dancing apart is walking in different times
(d) Clinging to a step is the past, going too fast is the future

4. Anne says that only by learning the truth and beauty in the individual we can do what?
(a) Not have war
(b) Deal with the whole
(c) Not have crime
(d) Not have to deal with the world

5. The author suggests that compassion may not be possible in the modern world for who?
(a) Individuals
(b) Groups of people
(c) Violent countries
(d) Criminals

6. As the author prepares to leave the island what saddens about her life at home?
(a) Her children are gone
(b) Her dog has died
(c) Her husband left her
(d) That it can't be lived like on the island

7. How do the two function in the small cottage?
(a) They keep knocking into each other
(b) They fight about who cooks
(c) They sleep in shifts
(d) As a dance

8. How are the bonds of marriage formed?
(a) Having children
(b) Working to achieve their united goals
(c) Watching television together
(d) Having a great love life

9. How does society deal with middle/late age?
(a) Condemns it
(b) Fears it
(c) Ignores it
(d) Makes fun of it

10. In the beginning of a marriage the author says there's little time to do what?
(a) To simply enjoy the life being built
(b) To have vacations
(c) To have children
(d) To travel

11. What are people expected to know in modern life?
(a) About everything that goes on
(b) How to raise children
(c) How to be a good spouse
(d) How to earn money

12. What do most friends in the city do that precludes the answer to question #153?
(a) Activities and conversation
(b) Work two jobs
(c) Isolate themselves
(d) Go to school long hours

13. What does Anne believe space around an object can do?
(a) Make it more special
(b) Be very dark
(c) Keep people from touching it
(d) Make it look odd

14. What types of habits does the daily life of marriage have?
(a) Feminine and masculine
(b) Strong and weak
(c) Good and bad
(d) Work and play

15. What does the Argonauta represent to Anne?
(a) Not clinging too tightly to the past
(b) To have a good relationship with her children
(c) To strive for rare objects
(d) To look for balance

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Anne say about a perfect day?

2. How does the author see the oyster shell?

3. When one lets go of the past one does one get?

4. Why does the author believe it will be difficult to remember her thoughts from the beach?

5. As far as relationships go, what does the author say is generally not an option?

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