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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 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.

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

3. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say is behind the wallpaper of the Family Home?
(a) A "happy, joyous woman" (11).
(b) A sliver of pain.
(c) An "unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman" (11).
(d) A secret corridor.

4. In Chapter Five: Gravity, which fictional character does Deborah say she thought she was?
(a) Tom Thumb.
(b) Bennet.
(c) Lavelli.
(d) Heidegger.

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

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 Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say helped her handle anxiety?

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

4. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say bothered her?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah Levy say she wrote about the Big Silver conversation after she witnessed it? What does she say she thought about the young woman?

5. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she repaired? How did this repair become a metaphor?

6. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, why did Deborah say she painted her walls yellow? Why did she paint them back to white?

7. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say she bought? Why did she buy this?

8. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say the young woman talked about? What did the man say in response?

9. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say holds together the family home? What does Deborah say is the disintegration of this story?

10. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, who does Deborah say was named "Big Silver"? Why was he called this?

(see the answer keys)

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