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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 say each person must develop on his/her own?
(a) One's own personality
(b) One's own talents
(c) One's own beliefs
(d) One's own attitudes

2. As far as relationships go, what does the author say is generally not an option?
(a) Getting out easily
(b) Finding peace
(c) Starting a new one with someone else
(d) Returning to the initial stage

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

4. How does Anne feel as she leaves the sea?
(a) Nostalgia is already setting in
(b) Happy
(c) Tushed she has to get home
(d) Tired but peaceful

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

6. What strong lure does the author feel when contemplating the oyster shell?
(a) Romantic love
(b) Parental guidance
(c) A new career
(d) Home and family

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

8. What does Anne say people must do as far as time goes?
(a) Live in the present
(b) Work faster
(c) Throw away all clocks
(d) Not think about time at all

9. 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

10. What do Anne and her visitor do in the afternoon?
(a) Play
(b) Read
(c) Physical work
(d) Talk

11. What does age bring with it, according to the author?
(a) The need to shed things
(b) The need for closure
(c) The need for balance
(d) Painful joints

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

13. How does the freedom of being a whole person effect a relationship?
(a) It makes a relationship stormy
(b) It usually breaks up a marriage
(c) It causes equality in a relationship
(d) The role of the person adds a different facet

14. What will she use to remind her of the island at home?
(a) Her shells
(b) The photos she took
(c) The letters she wrote home
(d) A journal

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Anne say about the tasks at home and time?

2. What is there little time at home to do, according to the author?

3. What does romantic love turn to, according to the author?

4. What does the author say makes it impossible to stand up for each person in existence?

5. What does Anne say about a perfect day?

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