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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Machado have a hard time visualizing after the breakup?
(a) Graduating.
(b) Getting married.
(c) Having sex with other people.
(d) Having kids.

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

4. What does Machado see while writing this book?
(a) A moose.
(b) A young buck.
(c) A cow.
(d) A hawk.

5. Who does Machado think about a lot?
(a) Dr. Seuss.
(b) Debra Reid.
(c) Toni Morrison.
(d) Kathleen Hanna.

6. What was 2012 supposed to be?
(a) The third world war.
(b) The year Machado got married.
(c) The beginning of a new world.
(d) The end of the world.

7. Who does Machado visit in California?
(a) An old professor.
(b) Her ex boyfriend.
(c) An old friend.
(d) A new friend.

8. What does the legal system not provide protection against, according to Muchado?
(a) Most kinds of abuse.
(b) Violence.
(c) Adultery.
(d) Murder.

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

10. What has Machado always been interested in?
(a) Religion.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Demon and possession narratives.
(d) Magic.

11. What is Machado haunted by?
(a) Her past.
(b) Ghosts.
(c) Her family.
(d) The specter of the lunatic lesbian.

12. Who does Machado feel sympathy for?
(a) Eve.
(b) Her mother.
(c) God.
(d) Adam.

13. Who is Debra Reid?
(a) A doctor.
(b) One of the first queer people to use “battered woman syndrome” to justify her crime of killing her abusive partner.
(c) One of the Framington Eight.
(d) One of the actors on the Hollywood Blacklist.

14. What does Machado imagine doing for young queers one day?
(a) Helping them get into grad school.
(b) Giving them a home.
(c) Having a giant party for them.
(d) Inviting them to her house for tea.

15. What is Nick like?
(a) He likes cooking.
(b) He likes fishing.
(c) He is Republican.
(d) He is a Democrat.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Machado go in New York?

3. Who is the animal in Machado's fable?

4. What is something Machado says she will never forget?

5. Who does Machado marry?

(see the answer keys)

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