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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 believe most people need?

2. Why does the author believe people often break up a romantic relationship?

3. What does residing by the sea do for the author?

4. According to the author, what is seen as failure in a relationship?

5. What is a moon shell?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the effect of solitude on people and on the author? What does the author feel when alone?

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

3. How is the mindset of the second week similar or different from her mindset in the city?

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

5. Describe a double-sunrise shell?

6. What is Anne's main goal and what would the fulfillment of this goal mean to her?

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

8. What does Anne find on one of her first walks on the beach and what does she wonder about it?

9. How does the author see people, since being at the beach?

10. Why might Anne want to be alone at the beach?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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?

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 suggests one cannot find love in someone else without first finding it for oneself. What does she mean? How would this apply to your life?

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