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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. What does Machado find many years after the breakup?

2. How long has Machado been out of the closet?

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

4. What are the voicemails like from the Woman in the Dream House?

5. What does Machado secretly wish had happened?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Machado have trouble doing after the breakup?

2. What happened to most of the Framingham Eight?

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

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

5. What was supposed to happen in 2012?

6. Who does Machado see when she visits Berkeley?

7. What is on display at the Brooklyn Museum when Machado visits with her girlfriend?

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

9. What does Machado develop after the Dream House?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you explore how emotional trauma can take a toll on the body. How does Machado's abusive relationship and its enduring trauma have a physical impact on Machado, both while she is living through it and thereafter? Use examples from the text to support your ideas.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore Machado's point about how abuse in queer relationships does not have much of an archival presence. Why is this so? Use examples from the text to support your reasoning.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you examine Machado's choice to write in second-person narration. What does this method do for the memoir and its stories as a whole, and what effect does it have on readers?

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