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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, who does Deborah say she overheard?
(a) An English woman.
(b) A nightmare.
(c) An American man and English woman.
(d) An American man.

5. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say the man she met at the party reminded her of?
(a) Jacob.
(b) Her father.
(c) Big Silver.
(d) Her ex.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she saw around her lamp?

4. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say foxes can hear from 40 yards away?

5. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, how does Deborah say her father had taught her to check if fruit was ripe?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say she was annoyed by? Why did this person annoy her this way?

2. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah write about her supporting her family in this time? What does she say about her freedom?

3. In Chapter Five: Gravity, how does Deborah say she set up her shed? What did she furnish it with?

4. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what did Deborah say she started going through? What does she say the paragraph she read reminded her of?

5. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, where does Deborah say she moved? How does she say she thought about this move?

6. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say she and her ex-husband did to the family home? What did this action send her back to?

7. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say she met later at the party? What did this person update her about their life?

8. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what piece of old writing does Deborah say she compared herself to?

9. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what metaphor from earlier in the book did Deborah apply to the party she went to? How did she apply this metaphor to women?

10. In Chapter Five: Gravity, who does Deborah say came to her rescue? How did this person rescue her?

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