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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she bought for the house?
(a) A hammock.
(b) A bird clock.
(c) A poultice.
(d) A pendulum.

2. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say she bought?
(a) A scooter.
(b) An e-bike.
(c) A car.
(d) Roller skates.

3. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, why does Deborah say she had energy?
(a) Because she had money.
(b) Because she borrowed from others.
(c) Because her friends supported her.
(d) Because she had no choice.

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" (53).
(c) "I believe in people who are nervous and whose hands shake a little" (53).
(d) "I can't" (53).

5. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she saw when she resurfaced?
(a) A silver spoon.
(b) Big Silver.
(c) A rainbow.
(d) A tempest.

6. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say the older man told the young woman?
(a) That he likes her stories.
(b) That she talks a lot.
(c) That he likes her.
(d) That she is old enough to be his daughter.

7. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say she had?
(a) The flu.
(b) Staph.
(c) Strep.
(d) Road rage.

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

9. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, where does Deborah reference traveling?
(a) The Underworld.
(b) Brazil.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Peru.

10. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say her older daughter did?
(a) Go to college.
(b) Move in.
(c) Go to America.
(d) Get a boyfriend.

11. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say she was unmaking?
(a) The home she despised.
(b) The home she loved.
(c) The home she hated.
(d) The home she spent most of life building.

12. In Chapter Five: Gravity, who does Deborah say helped her?
(a) Celia.
(b) Anne.
(c) Antic.
(d) Cecilia.

13. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Debra say she and her husband did with the family home?
(a) Gave it to friends.
(b) Redecorated it.
(c) Kept it.
(d) Sold it.

14. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say irritated her about her male colleagues and friends?
(a) Never calling her by name.
(b) Them not calling their wives by name.
(c) Being men.
(d) Being blind to women's struggles.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say Big Silver said he was?

2. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, reflecting on the conversation, what does Deborah say the young woman tried to do?

3. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what is Deborah's marriage in her metaphor?

4. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, who does Deborah say she met at a funeral?

5. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say a mother and wife does?

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