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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 sometime see the Woman in the Dream House doing?

2. Who decides to sleep on the couch after the bowling alley?

3. Who does Machado have a call with after the breakup?

4. Where does Machado go in New York?

5. What was published the year after Machado was born?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Nick?

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

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

5. What does Machado learn about the body throughout the processing of her trauma?

6. Who is Amber?

7. Where is Machado when her story ends?

8. What does Machado often find herself wondering about?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you examine Machado's trip to Florida to meet her ex's parents. What does she learn on this trip, and what events transpire? How do these things affect her and her relationship with the woman in the Dream House?

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 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.

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