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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who accompanies Machado back home after Berkeley?
(a) Laura.
(b) Val.
(c) John.
(d) Her mother.

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

4. Who is the animal in Machado's fable?
(a) A squid.
(b) A beaver.
(c) A bird.
(d) A dog.

5. What does Machado realize about herself?
(a) She is common as dirt.
(b) She is straight.
(c) She is trans.
(d) She still loves her ex.

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

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

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

9. What does the Woman in the Dream House always do to Machado in New York?
(a) Go on walks.
(b) Buy her nice things.
(c) Take her to cafes.
(d) Walk away from her.

10. What does Machado sometime see the Woman in the Dream House doing?
(a) Calling her mom.
(b) Writing about her.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Composing her face into sadness.

11. How does Machado fall?
(a) Off the kitchen counter.
(b) Off a bookshelf.
(c) Off a bike.
(d) While on a hike.

12. Why does Machado save the voicemails from her ex?
(a) In case she needs a restraining order.
(b) To show her kids.
(c) To show her friends.
(d) To listen back to.

13. What does the Woman in the Dream House admit to Muchado, which Muchado views as the end of the world?
(a) She is straight.
(b) She does not love Machado.
(c) She kissed someone else.
(d) She wants to move to Paris.

14. Who is Amber?
(a) Machado's therapist.
(b) A doctor.
(c) A classmate of the Woman in the Dream House.
(d) An old teacher.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the world come to an end for Machado?

2. How is Machado's creative work affected during her relationship with the Woman in the Dream House?

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

4. Machado says the Dream House what?

5. Where does Machado go in New York?

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