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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 happened with her furniture?
(a) It fit into the new house.
(b) It did not fit into the new house.
(c) It broke.
(d) It was refurbished.

2. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she saw?
(a) A budding flower.
(b) A silly pigeon.
(c) An artichoke.
(d) A bright caterpillar.

3. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say her neighbor saw her packing?
(a) Her daughters' old bed.
(b) Her daughters' old fishing nets.
(c) Her daughters' old clothes.
(d) Her daughters' old dolls.

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

5. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say she stopped at as she walked from her shed to her home?
(a) A church.
(b) An opal.
(c) A castle.
(d) A cemetery.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah reference Beckett saying grief is?

2. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say her male friend's new wife's name?

3. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say her older daughter did?

4. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say Celia baked throughout the year?

5. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she repaired in her house?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say her neighbor asked about as Deborah had packed up? What had Deborah's family members used these items for?

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

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

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

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

6. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, who was the couple Deborah Levy said she oversaw talking? How does she say they met?

7. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, who does Deborah say she met at a funeral? What was his story?

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

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

10. 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?

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