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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Four: Living in Yellow - Chapter Six: The Body Electric.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Five: Gravity, how many books does Deborah say she had in her shed?
(a) 11.
(b) 2.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

2. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what is Deborah's marriage in her metaphor?
(a) The sea.
(b) The land.
(c) The ocean.
(d) The boat.

3. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Debra say the packing up sent her back to?
(a) Old regrets.
(b) Moving from South Africa at age nine.
(c) Moving from Britain at age nine.
(d) Old dreams.

4. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say is her imaginary bathroom manifesto?
(a) "I believe in love" (53).
(b) "I can't" (53).
(c) "I can" (53).
(d) "I believe in people who are nervous and whose hands shake a little" (53).

5. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she said about a tempest?
(a) "Too fast" (5).
(b) "Too many" (5).
(c) It "may bring us closer to how we want to be in the world" (5).
(d) "Never in the Southern hemisphere" (5).

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say she met next at the party?

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

3. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say helped her handle anxiety?

4. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say the artists she thought of said of emotions and grief?

5. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, who does Deborah say she overheard?

(see the answer key)

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