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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. The metaphor of dance exquisitely describes the method in which one may approach what?
(a) How to grow young
(b) The unknown and lack of continuity in life
(c) Relationships
(d) How to learn

2. Why must a new community be created in a middle aged relationship?
(a) Life is slower
(b) To keep it from boredom
(c) The community is much larger
(d) The children have left home

3. How does Anne decorate her beach cottage?
(a) With local handicrafts
(b) She doesn't deorate her cottage
(c) With gifts from the sea
(d) With her paintings

4. How does the author see the architecture of the channeled whelk?
(a) As a seamless work of art
(b) It is haphazard
(c) It is dull
(d) It is ugly, but functional

5. What complicates a pure relationship?
(a) Work
(b) Contact with the world
(c) Children
(d) Religion

Short Answer Questions

1. What types of habits does the daily life of marriage have?

2. What does the author say everyone wants out of love?

3. What does the author say each person must develop on his/her own?

4. Who preached against the dangers of multiplicity in the third century?

5. What does the author say gets in the way of simplification?

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