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

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

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

4. What does Machado develop after the Dream House?
(a) A sixth sense.
(b) A good eye.
(c) A deeper voice.
(d) Good memory.

5. What happens when Machado falls asleep watching a movie one night?
(a) The Woman in the Dream House breaks up with her.
(b) Nothing happens.
(c) She wakes up to a storm.
(d) The Woman in the Dream House calls her dozens of times.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the Woman in the Dream House break up with Machado?

2. What does Machado sometimes wonder about?

3. What has Machado always been interested in?

4. How does Machado fall?

5. What does the Woman in the Dream House always do to Machado in New York?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the Woman in the Dream House blame her episodes on?

2. What does Machado develop after the Dream House?

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

4. What advice did Machado's father give her about test taking?

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

6. Where is Machado when her story ends?

7. Who is Debra Reid?

8. What was supposed to happen in 2012?

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

10. Why does Machado feel sympathetic toward Adam?

(see the answer keys)

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