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

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

3. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say she met next at the party?
(a) Her ex.
(b) Her best male friend.
(c) Her lover.
(d) The Man Who Cried at the Funeral.

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

5. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she resurfaced from?
(a) Her career.
(b) Her marriage.
(c) Her spouse.
(d) Her childhood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say the artists she thought of said of emotions and grief?

3. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say she was unmaking?

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

5. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what film does Deborah say she had watched with her ex?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

5. 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?

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

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

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

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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