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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am - Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, what possession of her mother's does Deborah say she kept?
(a) A postcard from Berlin.
(b) A postcard from Boston.
(c) A postcard from Cape Town.
(d) A postcard from Johannesburg.

2. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say Celia sang in?
(a) Welsh.
(b) Arabic.
(c) Russian.
(d) Andalusian.

3. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, what does Deborah say the man on the train was going to buy?
(a) Medical shoes for his wife.
(b) A car.
(c) New earphones.
(d) Gifts.

4. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, where was the apartment Deborah says she moved to?
(a) In Ohio.
(b) In East London.
(c) In South Africa.
(d) In North London.

5. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say she lost after her mother's death?
(a) Money.
(b) Hope.
(c) A sense of direction.
(d) Space

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah discuss metaphorically falling apart?

2. In Chapter Seven: The Black and Blueish Darkness, what does Deborah say we expect our mothers to do?

3. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, what does Deborah say she would buy her mother on her mother's deathbed?

4. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, where does Deborah say her mother was from?

5. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what reason does Deborah say she gave Clara for why she had the bird clock?

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