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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Machado tell Nick?
(a) That she is a lesbian.
(b) That she hates him.
(c) That she knows about his past.
(d) That she wants to move in with him.

2. Who does Machado marry?
(a) John.
(b) Laura.
(c) Val.
(d) The woman in the Dream House.

3. Muchado writes that what happens when an illness rages through your body?
(a) You are contagious.
(b) You get weaker.
(c) You die.
(d) You develop immunity.

4. Whose house burns down?
(a) Machado's dad.
(b) Machado's friend.
(c) Machado's ex.
(d) Machado's mom.

5. What does Machado want to tell young queers?
(a) That they can be hurt by people that are like them.
(b) That they are loved.
(c) That they should all go to grad school.
(d) That they should follow their dreams.

6. What does Machado do about her ex calling after they had broken up?
(a) She emails her instead.
(b) She answers the call.
(c) She blocks her number.
(d) She texts her instead.

7. What does the Woman in the Dream House tell Machado in the shower?
(a) She wants to get married.
(b) She hates her.
(c) She loves her.
(d) She says nothing.

8. What does Machado sometimes wonder about?
(a) If she is really a lesbian.
(b) If she should have stayed with her ex.
(c) How her abusive relationship could have gone right.
(d) If she is trans.

9. What does Machado say about women?
(a) They cannot abuse men.
(b) They cannot abuse women.
(c) They can abuse women.
(d) They abuse men.

10. What movie did Machado's middle school teacher show her class?
(a) Grease.
(b) West Side Story.
(c) Hairspray.
(d) Carmen.

11. How long has Machado been out of the closet?
(a) Her whole life.
(b) A decade.
(c) She is not out.
(d) A year.

12. Who comes into town unexpectedly after the breakup?
(a) Sam.
(b) Machado's brother.
(c) Val.
(d) The Woman in the Dream House.

13. What does Machado keep returning to in the memoir?
(a) Whether or not she is gay.
(b) How to break up with someone.
(c) How to poach an egg.
(d) What makes a reliable narrator.

14. What is a lie about autobiographical writing, according to Machado?
(a) That there is a real end.
(b) That any of it is real.
(c) That there is a middle.
(d) That there is a beginning.

15. Who is Nick?
(a) Machado's father.
(b) Machado's brother.
(c) Machado's ex.
(d) Machado's uncle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Woman in the Dream House say of her episodes?

2. What does Machado see while writing this book?

3. What does Machado reveal to Val after the breakup?

4. What does Machado consider dangerous?

5. What does Machado have a hard time visualizing after the breakup?

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