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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does the author learn to appreciate with in her solitude?
(a) God
(b) Art
(c) Politics
(d) Other people
2. How does Anne feel about her roles in life?
(a) She is indifferent to them
(b) She deeply desires to maintain them
(c) She resents them
(d) They bore her
3. What does Anne believe is possible at the beach as far as shelter is concerned?
(a) A beautiful shelter is necessary for peace
(b) It has to have a comfortable bed
(c) A simple shelter is adequate
(d) One needs no shelter
4. What did Anne experience after the good-bye?
(a) Ghost pain
(b) Peace
(c) Sleeping well
(d) Comfort
5. Why does she believe people seek meaningless activities when there's nothing to do?
(a) To fill the void of time
(b) So they don't get bored
(c) To keep from remembering something bad
(d) To keep from thinking
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of atmosphere between people does a beach create?
2. What does the author seek to do at the sea?
3. What does the state of ease allow?
4. To what does the author equate shedding insincerity?
5. How is the mindset of the second week at the beach different from the city mindset?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Anne's main goal and what would the fulfillment of this goal mean to her?
2. What does Anne find on one of her first walks on the beach and what does she wonder about it?
3. How does the author feel about the ocean and what happens to her when near it?
4. How does the author see people, since being at the beach?
5. Describe a double-sunrise shell?
6. What is the effect of solitude on people and on the author? What does the author feel when alone?
7. How does the channeled whelk shell appear to Anne?
8. How does the author feel about the concept of being the "one and only" in a person's life?
9. Why would a person avoid being alone?
10. How does this book open and why is the author at the location in the book?
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