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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Beach at My Back.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does age bring with it, according to the author?
(a) The need for balance
(b) Painful joints
(c) The need to shed things
(d) The need for closure

2. How do the two function in the small cottage?
(a) They sleep in shifts
(b) They fight about who cooks
(c) As a dance
(d) They keep knocking into each other

3. What do the Anne and her visitor do in the evening?
(a) Write
(b) Read
(c) Relax and talk
(d) Set up a budget

4. Between what two poles have women swung, in the past?
(a) Love and hate
(b) Dependence and competition
(c) Kindness and anger
(d) Ambition and laziness

5. Who does Anne use as an example of the simple life?
(a) Modern art
(b) Her sister
(c) Nuns and monks
(d) Children in an orphanage

Short Answer Questions

1. What does she want to relate to her city life from the beach?

2. What does multiplicity in life lead to, according to the author?

3. How much does Anne believe her thoughts at the beach will change her life at home?

4. What does the author forget when she's in the city?

5. What does the author say is required of an artist?

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