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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Machado have to keep reminding herself after the breakup?
(a) She is fragile.
(b) She is a lesbian.
(c) She is a woman.
(d) She is accountable to no one.

2. What does Machado consider dangerous?
(a) Planes.
(b) Sports.
(c) Hammers.
(d) Cliches.

3. How does the Woman in the Dream House break up with Machado?
(a) Over Skype.
(b) In person.
(c) Over the phone.
(d) Via email.

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

5. How does Machado get home from the bowling alley?
(a) Her car.
(b) A bus.
(c) A train.
(d) A cab.

6. What does Machado secretly wish had happened?
(a) That she was straight.
(b) That she had been born a man.
(c) That the Woman in the Dream House had proposed.
(d) That the Woman in the Dream House had hit her.

7. What does Machado want?
(a) An explanation that clears her girlfriend of responsibility.
(b) A cat.
(c) To marry her girlfriend.
(d) A dog.

8. Where does Machado stay for Christmas break?
(a) Her house.
(b) Her parents' house.
(c) A hotel.
(d) The Dream House.

9. Who throws a suitcase?
(a) John.
(b) The Woman in the Dream House.
(c) Val.
(d) Machado.

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

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

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

13. What does Muchado say society teaches girls about their perspectives?
(a) They are not important.
(b) They are trustworthy.
(c) They are valid.
(d) They are inherently untrustworthy.

14. Why does Machado go to a hotel when her ex-girlfriend unexpectedly came back to town?
(a) To meet a friend.
(b) For a one night stand.
(c) To meet the Woman in the Dream House.
(d) To have a night to herself.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Machado imagine doing for young queers one day?

2. Who accompanies Machado back home after Berkeley?

3. What happens on the night of the bowling alley?

4. What happens at the bowling alley?

5. What is the worst part of Machado's experience with her ex?

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