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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the author forget when she's in the city?
2. What does being alone generally suggest in this society?
3. What does the author stress about day to day living?
4. To whom will the sea not give its gifts?
5. What does the author learn to appreciate with in her solitude?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the author's intentions for her time at the beach and is she successful?
2. How does one get gifts from the sea and what are the gifts?
3. How does the author find life at the ocean?
4. What is the effect of solitude on people and on the author? What does the author feel when alone?
5. How does this book open and why is the author at the location in the book?
6. What does the author say is the answer to the dilemma on how to remain intact and balanced against the forces of nature and shocking events in the periphery
7. What does the author explore in her life and the sea? How does she relate this to the channeled whelk?
8. Describe the moon shell.
9. What does Anne find on one of her first walks on the beach and what does she wonder about it?
10. What kind of examples does Anne use to illustrate simplicity in life?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Anne talks about the various stages she sees in marriage. What are these stages and is it possible they apply to any relationship? Why are why not?
Essay Topic 2
Anne says that the small communities of the nineteenth century has given way to the larger world communities. How has the technology developed since Lindbergh wrote this book made this an even more true statement? Use examples from the 1950s and now to illustrate your answer.
Essay Topic 3
The author says her main goal at the sea is to obtain peace. What would be your goal if you took a similar vacation? How would you obtain that goal? Is there some place you would choose besides the sea to find peace? Where? Why?
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