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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 is old enough to be his daughter.
(c) That he likes her.
(d) That she talks a lot.

2. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what was the issue Deborah entered the chapter with?
(a) Being overweight.
(b) Wanting love.
(c) Not having a place to write.
(d) Being sad.

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

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

5. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say she stopped at as she walked from her shed to her home?
(a) A church.
(b) A cemetery.
(c) A castle.
(d) An opal.

6. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, where does Deborah say she was listening to a conversation?
(a) At a bar in Mexico.
(b) At a bar in Oceana.
(c) At a bar in Columbia.
(d) At a bar in Idaho.

7. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she needed?
(a) The old composition.
(b) A new composition.
(c) The same composition.
(d) A dog.

8. In Chapter Five: Gravity, whose hut does Deborah say she thought of assembling for herself?
(a) Lavelli's.
(b) Archie's.
(c) Bennet's.
(d) Heidegger's.

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

10. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she wondered if she was while repairing the plumbing?
(a) Man, woman, and shaman.
(b) In the wrong career.
(c) A man.
(d) Too tired for this.

11. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she called the corridors?
(a) The Corridors.
(b) The Corridors of Horror.
(c) The Corridors of Love.
(d) The Winter.

12. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say Clara can do?
(a) Shimmy.
(b) Dance.
(c) Swim.
(d) Put her hair up with one pin.

13. In Chapter Five: Body Electric, what does Deborah say she thought she was doing?
(a) Rebirthing.
(b) Dying.
(c) Passing from one life to another.
(d) Passing from one hour to another.

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

15. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say is Mervvy's full name?
(a) Marvelous.
(b) Myfanwy.
(c) Mervin.
(d) Mervvy the One Eyed Dog of War.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she saw?

4. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she and her daughter ate for breakfast?

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

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