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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 Three: Nets, what does Deborah say a mother and wife does?
(a) Steal souls.
(b) Send everyone away.
(c) Architects everyone's happiness.
(d) Steal love.
2. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say irritated her about her male colleagues and friends?
(a) Being blind to women's struggles.
(b) Never calling her by name.
(c) Being men.
(d) Them not calling their wives by name.
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 could not get work.
(c) She was tired.
(d) She could not get paid.
4. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say is Mervvy's full name?
(a) Marvelous.
(b) Mervin.
(c) Mervvy the One Eyed Dog of War.
(d) Myfanwy.
5. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say she had?
(a) The flu.
(b) Road rage.
(c) Staph.
(d) Strep.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah discuss physically falling apart?
2. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say bothered her?
3. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say she stopped at as she walked from her shed to her home?
4. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she needed?
5. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say is her imaginary bathroom manifesto?
Short Essay Questions
1. 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?
2. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what did Deborah say she started going through? What does she say the paragraph she read reminded her of?
3. 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?
4. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she resented most about her divorce? How does she say she thought of her unhappiness?
5. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, who does Deborah say she met at a funeral? What was his story?
6. In Chapter Five: Gravity, how does Deborah say she set up her shed? What did she furnish it with?
7. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say she was annoyed by? Why did this person annoy her this way?
8. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she had seen in Brazil? How had she applied this to her divorcee life?
9. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she repaired? How did this repair become a metaphor?
10. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what piece of old writing does Deborah say she compared herself to?
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