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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, what does Deborah say she saw?
(a) A budding flower.
(b) A silly pigeon.
(c) An artichoke.
(d) A bright caterpillar.

2. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she found in the cupboard?
(a) Ants.
(b) Aphids.
(c) Worms.
(d) Moths.

3. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say a mother and wife does?
(a) Steal souls.
(b) Steal love.
(c) Send everyone away.
(d) Architects everyone's happiness.

4. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say irritated her about her male colleagues and friends?
(a) Never calling her by name.
(b) Them not calling their wives by name.
(c) Being men.
(d) Being blind to women's struggles.

5. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say the artists she thought of said of emotions and grief?
(a) That art comes out of it.
(b) That they are unaware of them.
(c) That it never goes away.
(d) That they are an ocean.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, why does Deborah say she had energy?

2. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say was above the water when the woman came up?

3. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what author does Deborah say wrote a poem about bees that Deborah remembers?

4. In Chapter Five: Body Electric, what does Deborah say she thought she was doing?

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, who does Deborah say was named "Big Silver"? Why was he called this?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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