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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. Who accompanies Machado back home after Berkeley?

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

3. What does the Woman in the Dream House say of her episodes?

4. How does Machado fall?

5. What does the Woman in the Dream House admit to Muchado, which Muchado views as the end of the world?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Nick?

3. What does Machado develop after the Dream House?

4. What movie did Machado's middle school teacher show her class?

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

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

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

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

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

10. Who does Machado see when she visits Berkeley?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you examine the concept of abuse in relationships. What is abuse? What constitutes abuse, and who gets to decide whether or not it is valid?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay exploring Machado's understanding of and relationship to her body. What kinds of influences do the people in her life and society as a whole have on her understanding of her physical self, and in turn, on her value as a person? Use examples from the text to support your thoughts.

Essay Topic 3

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?

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