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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 Eight: The Republic, with whom does Deborah say she talked in her shed?
(a) The gardener.
(b) Celia.
(c) Her ex.
(d) Her friend.

2. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, who does Deborah say also rode with her and the Crying Man?
(a) Celia.
(b) Heidegger.
(c) Jean.
(d) Clara.

3. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, what does Deborah say we do not want our mothers to be?
(a) Writers.
(b) Dreamers.
(c) Empathetic.
(d) Architects.

4. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say she felt after her mother's death?
(a) Disorientated.
(b) Alone.
(c) Sick.
(d) Afraid.

5. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, what does Deborah say she remembered?
(a) Crying.
(b) Coming to South Africa at age nine.
(c) Being happy.
(d) Coming to Britain at age nine.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, what does Deborah say we expect our mothers to do?

2. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, who does Deborah say she met?

3. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, what does Deborah say she asked the man on the train?

4. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, who does Deborah say she rode with?

5. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, what myth does Deborah say captured her?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say Clara thought of Deborah's life? What does Deborah say she thought of this?

2. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, who does Deborah say were her companions on the train? How does she say they interacted?

3. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, where does Deborah say she saw the word "winterized"? How did she apply this to herself?

4. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, who does Deborah say took to driving her around the city and why? Who also rode with them?

5. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, why does Deborah say she thought her sense of direction was lost? How does she say this related to her mother?

6. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, where does Deborah say her mother grew up? What did her mother teach her in old age?

7. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say she told Clara about dating again? How does she say Clara responded?

8. In Chapter Seven: The Black and Bluish Darkness, what does Deborah say she needed to compose? How does she apply this as a metaphor?

9. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, how do footsteps factor into the chapter? What do they symbolically represent?

10. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, how does Deborah say she compared herself to Simone de Beauvoir? How are their lives similar and different?

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