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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter One: The Big Silver - Chapter Three: Nets.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say is behind the wallpaper of the Family Home?
(a) A "happy, joyous woman" (11).
(b) A secret corridor.
(c) An "unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman" (11).
(d) A sliver of pain.

2. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say her marriage is?
(a) "The ghost that will always haunt [her] life" (6).
(b) "Bad" (6).
(c) "An avocado on the counter that will never ripen" (6).
(d) "Good" (6).

3. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, reflecting on the conversation, what does Deborah say the young woman tried to do?
(a) Be Big Silver.
(b) Be Deborah.
(c) Be a cartoon.
(d) Be herself.

4. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, who does Deborah say she met at a funeral?
(a) A man who did not cry.
(b) A man who cried like a woman.
(c) A man who cried like a man.
(d) A man who cried like an octopus.

5. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah imagine her unsaid conversations with her ex as?
(a) As an ocean of hurt.
(b) As a ship in a bottle.
(c) As a plumbing block.
(d) As a box in the ocean found in the future by artificial life.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say the breaking of the family home is like?

2. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say irritated her about her male colleagues and friends?

3. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say the young woman told the man about?

4. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah reference Beckett saying grief is?

5. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she resurfaced from?

(see the answer key)

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