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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who decides to sleep on the couch after the bowling alley?
(a) The Woman in the Dream House.
(b) They both sleep on the couch.
(c) No one sleeps on the couch.
(d) Machado.

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

4. What happens on the night of the bowling alley?
(a) Machado says she is pregnant.
(b) Machado gets chased into the bathroom in the Dream House.
(c) Machado gets hit.
(d) Machado breaks up with the woman in the Dream House.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does a writer have to choose?

2. What does Machado develop after the Dream House?

3. Who helps Machado ignore a call from her ex after the breakup?

4. What does the Woman in the Dream House say one day randomly?

5. Who accompanies Machado back home after Berkeley?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Debra Reid once tell a reporter she wanted?

2. What happens when Machado goes bowling with the Woman in the Dream House?

3. What does Machado find on a memory card many years later?

4. What movie did Machado's middle school teacher show her class?

5. What does Machado develop after the Dream House?

6. Where does the woman in the Dream House live?

7. Who is Debra Reid?

8. What was supposed to happen in 2012?

9. What does it take a while for Machado to realize about her relationship with the woman in the Dream House?

10. What happens on the night that Machado is supposed to be hosting a party for a professor?

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