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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why must a new community be created in a middle aged relationship?
(a) The children have left home
(b) To keep it from boredom
(c) Life is slower
(d) The community is much larger

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

4. What is difficult for a person in a crowd to do?
(a) Stand out
(b) Be the boss
(c) Change someone's opinion
(d) Get to work on time

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

6. What do the Anne and her visitor do in the evening?
(a) Relax and talk
(b) Set up a budget
(c) Read
(d) Write

7. What does Anne believe concentrating on the world's problems might do to someone?
(a) Keep them from having children
(b) Keep them from helping individuals
(c) Keep them from solving their own problems
(d) Keep their lives in chaos

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

9. What stage of life does the author say the oyster shell best represents?
(a) The middle years
(b) Youth
(c) Old age
(d) Birth

10. How does the structure of the oyster shell appear?
(a) It has no structure
(b) Sprawling and uneven
(c) Evenly spaced
(d) Intricate and planned

11. How are most actions taken for helping people in modern life?
(a) On a case by case basis
(b) Without thought of the repercussions
(c) To benefit self rather than others
(d) On behalf of the whole

12. What makes people seem different on the island from people in the city?
(a) In the city the people are rushed
(b) On the island one sees each person as unique
(c) In the city the people are friendly
(d) On the island most people don't have a job

13. By middle age, what does Anne assert most couples are doing?
(a) Quit the struggle for a place in the world
(b) Waiting for grandchildren
(c) Getting ready to start a new career
(d) Getting bored with each other

14. What does she want to relate to her city life from the beach?
(a) Relate the beach people to the city people
(b) Relate the shells to cycles
(c) Relate work to play
(d) Relate the island paradise to every day life

15. The metaphor of dance exquisitely describes the method in which one may approach what?
(a) How to grow young
(b) How to learn
(c) The unknown and lack of continuity in life
(d) Relationships

Short Answer Questions

1. The author asserts that to expect duration in one's life and relationships is what?

2. How does society deal with middle/late age?

3. Why does Anne take only a few shells home with her?

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

5. What is the difference between daily living tasks on the island and at home?

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