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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say the breaking of the family home is like?
(a) The breaking of a clock.
(b) The breaking of a soul.
(c) The breaking of a love.
(d) The breaking of a heart.

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

3. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say Big Silver said he was?
(a) A lover.
(b) A poltergeist.
(c) A drifter.
(d) A musician.

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

5. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say was the young woman's hurt?
(a) A breakup.
(b) She fell asleep.
(c) She was drowned.
(d) Her friend on the boat did not check for her.

6. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah discuss metaphorically falling apart?
(a) People.
(b) Society and the Patriarchal Story.
(c) Her ex.
(d) The Family Home.

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

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

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

10. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say about children growing up in the patriarchy story?
(a) They will struggle to compose another one.
(b) They will push to be whole.
(c) They will write a new one.
(d) They will reemerge whole.

11. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, how does Deborah say her father had taught her to check if fruit was ripe?
(a) If it felt like a firm earlobe at the extremities.
(b) If it was green.
(c) By taste.
(d) If it was brown.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say about this time in the house?

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

3. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say she added to the shed in winter?

4. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say Celia lent her?

5. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah imagine her unsaid conversations with her ex as?

(see the answer keys)

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