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

2. Who comes to Iowa City while Machado is still there?
(a) Lady Gaga.
(b) Bernie Sanders.
(c) Beyonce.
(d) Barack Obama.

3. What happens to Machado at random times?
(a) Machado's cat meows.
(b) Machado's body reacts with fear.
(c) Machado gets calls from her ex.
(d) Machado's dog barks.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Machado sometime see the Woman in the Dream House doing?

2. What happens when Machado falls asleep watching a movie one night?

3. What does Machado tell Nick?

4. Muchado writes that what happens when an illness rages through your body?

5. What does Machado help the Woman in the Dream House do?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Machado when her story ends?

2. What happened to most of the Framingham Eight?

3. Why does Machado feel sympathetic toward Adam?

4. What does Machado do the first time her ex tries to contact her after the breakup?

5. What does Machado develop after the Dream House?

6. What was supposed to happen in 2012?

7. What do the Woman in the Dream House's voicemails sound like?

8. What does Machado spend her entire second year of grad school doing?

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

10. Who is Debra Reid?

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