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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 does Deborah say she found in the cupboard?
(a) Ants.
(b) Moths.
(c) Aphids.
(d) Worms.

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

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

4. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say is Mervvy's full name?
(a) Mervvy the One Eyed Dog of War.
(b) Myfanwy.
(c) Mervin.
(d) Marvelous.

5. 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 push to be whole.
(c) They will struggle to compose another one.
(d) They will reemerge whole.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she called the corridors?

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

3. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Debra say she and her husband did with the family home?

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

5. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say she looked through?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she resented most about her divorce? How does she say she thought of her unhappiness?

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

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

6. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she had seen in Brazil? How had she applied this to her divorcee life?

7. 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?

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

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

10. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, how does Deborah apply the Big Silver metaphor to herself? How does she say she applied it to in her own life?

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