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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. Why is less time spent caring for the home now possible?
(a) Smaller houses
(b) Smaller families
(c) Men help
(d) A myriad inventions

2. What does the author say is required of an artist?
(a) To be around a lot of people
(b) To be patient
(c) To give of self in small drops
(d) To not care

3. What two actions does the author say are not acceptable paths to simplicity?
(a) Being famous
(b) Total renunciation or total acceptance of the world
(c) Having more than three children
(d) Becoming rich

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

5. What does Anne wishes she could do with the cottage?
(a) Remodel it
(b) Change the kitchen sink
(c) Take it home with her
(d) Paint the rooms

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the author say gets in the way of simplification?

2. What casts a powerful spell on Anne?

3. What does the spell in question #18 do to Anne?

4. What kind of atmosphere between people does a beach create?

5. At the beginning of a relationship what kind of world exist for two people?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the author suggest women should obtain solitude?

2. What happens to Anne's mind the second week at the beach?

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

4. What are obstacles to simplicity in Anne's life?

5. What does the author believe people are designed to seek? How do people avoid loneliness?

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

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

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

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

10. Describe a double-sunrise shell?

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