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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 Two: The Tempest, where does Deborah reference traveling?
(a) Peru.
(b) The Underworld.
(c) Argentina.
(d) Brazil.
2. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say the young woman did when she talked to the older man?
(a) Collapsed a social boundary.
(b) Collapsed into dust.
(c) Collapsed to Big Silver.
(d) Collapsed to the floor.
3. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say about this time in the house?
(a) It was her most professionally busy time.
(b) She was tired.
(c) She could not get work.
(d) She could not get paid.
4. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say her marriage is?
(a) "Bad" (6).
(b) "An avocado on the counter that will never ripen" (6).
(c) "The ghost that will always haunt [her] life" (6).
(d) "Good" (6).
5. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say the young woman told the man about?
(a) Scuba diving in Mexico.
(b) Scuba diving in Canada.
(c) Scuba diving in Hawaii.
(d) Scuba diving in Florida.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she bought for the house?
2. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, who does Deborah say she overheard?
3. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, how does Deborah say her father had taught her to check if fruit was ripe?
4. In Chapter Five: Gravity, who does Deborah say helped her?
5. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say bothered her?
Short Essay Questions
1. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, who was the couple Deborah Levy said she oversaw talking? How does she say they met?
2. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what did Deborah say she noticed about her male friends and colleagues? What did this lead her to question?
3. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what piece of old writing does Deborah say she compared herself to?
4. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, who does Deborah say was named "Big Silver"? Why was he called this?
5. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, why did Deborah say she painted her walls yellow? Why did she paint them back to white?
6. 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?
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 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?
9. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what did Deborah say she started going through? What does she say the paragraph she read reminded her of?
10. 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?
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