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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. How can a homemaker avoid feeling dispensable?
(a) Fulfillment of spirit
(b) Have work outside the home
(c) Have a fun hobby
(d) Keep having children

2. What complicates a pure relationship?
(a) Work
(b) Contact with the world
(c) Children
(d) Religion

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

4. What does the author believe people are designed to do?
(a) Have a purpose
(b) Have children
(c) Seek companionship and acceptance
(d) Make money

5. To what does Anne compare saying good-bye?
(a) A happy moment
(b) A sad moment
(c) An amputation
(d) A necessary moment

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is less time spent caring for the home now possible?

2. What is Anne afraid of when she is alone and feeling peaceful?

3. What are the author's ambitions for the days to come?

4. What kind of experience does the author say being alone was for her?

5. What is the author doing at the beginning of the book?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author suggest one might rejuvenate a relationship?

2. What are the author's intentions for her time at the beach and is she successful?

3. How does this book open and why is the author at the location in the book?

4. How does one get gifts from the sea and what are the gifts?

5. What kind of examples does Anne use to illustrate simplicity in life?

6. How does the author feel about the ocean and what happens to her when near it?

7. How does the author see the difference between a man and a woman in marriage?

8. How does the author find life at the ocean?

9. Describe the author's understanding of the first stage of a relationship.

10. Describe a double-sunrise shell?

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