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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 called the corridors?
(a) The Corridors of Horror.
(b) The Corridors of Love.
(c) The Winter.
(d) The Corridors.

2. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say foxes can hear from 40 yards away?
(a) A clock ticking.
(b) A catcoon.
(c) A mouse.
(d) A rabbit.

3. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she and her daughter ate for breakfast?
(a) Olives.
(b) Peeled oranges.
(c) Peeled apples.
(d) Eggs.

4. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say the artists she thought of said of emotions and grief?
(a) That art comes out of it.
(b) That they are an ocean.
(c) That they are unaware of them.
(d) That it never goes away.

5. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what author does Deborah say wrote a poem about bees that Deborah remembers?
(a) Masha.
(b) Mark Twain.
(c) Android Droid.
(d) Emily Dickinson.

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

7. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say bothered her?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Celia.
(c) Mason.
(d) Jean.

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

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

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

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

12. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say she and her husband agreed on?
(a) To live separately but together in the lives of their children.
(b) To hate one another.
(c) To never see one another again.
(d) To remarry.

13. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say is the beginning of a new story outside the patriarchy?
(a) A woman not feeling at home in her home.
(b) A woman becoming happy.
(c) A woman becoming a butterfly.
(d) A woman becoming free.

14. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah imagine her unsaid conversations with her ex as?
(a) As a plumbing block.
(b) As a ship in a bottle.
(c) As an ocean of hurt.
(d) As a box in the ocean found in the future by artificial life.

15. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say the young woman did when she talked to the older man?
(a) Collapsed into dust.
(b) Collapsed a social boundary.
(c) Collapsed to the floor.
(d) Collapsed to Big Silver.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say she was unmaking?

5. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say she stopped at as she walked from her shed to her home?

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