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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Machado come of age?

2. Where does Machado have her first date with the Woman in the Dream House?

3. What does Machado think about the phrase "Safe as houses"?

4. What is Gaslight about?

5. Who overhears theWoman in the Dream House making Machado cry?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the woman in the Dream House?

2. What happens when Machado goes into the Dream House's basement?

3. What does the woman in the Dream House tell Machado that takes her by surprise after their trip?

4. What did Machado do while other teens were dating?

5. Where did Machado live before she met the Woman in the Dream House?

6. Who is Ms. Lily?

7. What does Machado do on her first date with the woman in the Dream House?

8. What is Machado's impression of her ex's family?

9. What happens at the start of Machado's first road trip with the woman in the Dream House?

10. What is the Dream House to Machado?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you examine the relationship between Machado and her now-wife, Val. What brings these two together, and why is this relationship so important given everything that happened with the woman in the Dream House?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore Machado's writing on the importance and impact of queerness in media and art. How are queer people typically depicted in the media, and why are these standard modes of representation more complicated than simply being good or bad?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you explore how Machado's relationship with her woman in the Dream House effects her understanding of physical intimacy. Even once the relationship is over, Machado wonders whether she will ever be able to want or receive touch ever again. In your essay, explore Machado's point that "the body learns" in order to examine how trauma lives not only in the mind, but in the body even once it is over.

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