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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 she was unmaking?
(a) The home she loved.
(b) The home she despised.
(c) The home she spent most of life building.
(d) The home she hated.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say her marriage is?
(a) "An avocado on the counter that will never ripen" (6).
(b) "Bad" (6).
(c) "The ghost that will always haunt [her] life" (6).
(d) "Good" (6).

10. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say the the caterpillar had?
(a) Two heads.
(b) Two bodies.
(c) Two butts.
(d) Two brains.

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

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 Five: Gravity, how many books does Deborah say she had in her shed?
(a) 2.
(b) 10.
(c) 12.
(d) 11.

14. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say she looked through?
(a) Old writing and journals.
(b) Her records.
(c) Old photographs.
(d) Her old novels.

15. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, who does Deborah say she met at a funeral?
(a) A man who cried like a woman.
(b) A man who did not cry.
(c) A man who cried like an octopus.
(d) A man who cried like a man.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Five: Body Electric, what does Deborah say she thought she was doing?

3. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she did to the yellow walls?

4. In Chapter Five: Gravity, who does Deborah say helped her?

5. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say she bought?

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