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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 Seven: The Black and Blueish Darkness, who does Deborah say is a dreamer in the traditional family story?
(a) The sister.
(b) The brother.
(c) The mother.
(d) The father.

2. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, what refrain does Deborah say her student had used?
(a) "And I love the rain" (72).
(b) "We diverge" (72).
(c) "Sorry" (72).
(d) "Popped balloons" (72).

3. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say Clara said her mother's life was for?
(a) Birthing.
(b) Rapping.
(c) Dying.
(d) Creating.

4. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, what did the sign on the fountain say according to Debra?
(a) It has been vandalized.
(b) It has been emptied.
(c) It has been shut down.
(d) It has been winterized.

5. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say Clara thought Deborah's life was?
(a) "Empty" (103).
(b) "La dolce vita" (103).
(c) "Sad" (103).
(d) "Loving' (103).

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, who does Deborah say also rode with her and the Crying Man?

2. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say Clara said about shortening the past?

3. In Chapter Seven: The Black and Blueish Darkness, what does Deborah say is her mother's background?

4. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, what does Deborah recall her mother saying she wanted after her death?

5. In Chapter Seven: The Black and Blueish Darkness, what does Deborah say was the offensive flavor of ice lollies left before Deborah's mother died?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, what possession from her mother does Deborah say she kept? What touched her most about this?

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

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

4. 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?

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

6. In Chapter Seven: The Black and Bluish Darkness, what meeting does Deborah say she went to? How did she feel at the meeting?

7. In Chapter Seven: The Black and Bluish Darkness, what does Deborah say she had for dinner? What happened with dinner?

8. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, how does Deborah say she remembered her journey to Britain as a child? How does she say she thinks of it later?

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

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

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