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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What type of people does the author believe one would be unlikely to be friends with in a city?
(a) An eclectic group
(b) An old hippie
(c) A surf bum
(d) A beatnik

2. What does the author say might sacrifice the present in honor of the future?
(a) Trying to ignore the day and always think about next week
(b) Trying to put off too many actions
(c) Trying to live in the past
(d) Trying to balance the individual against the whole

3. How does she relate time to the dance?
(a) Dancing hard is hanging onto the past
(b) Not dancing is being in the now
(c) Clinging to a step is the past, going too fast is the future
(d) Dancing apart is walking in different times

4. What does the author plan to do about her life upon returning home?
(a) Tell her husband to change
(b) Try for more balance
(c) Kick her grown children out
(d) Pick-up where she left off

5. Who comes to visit Anne at the cottage?
(a) Her husband
(b) Her sister
(c) Her children
(d) Her lover

6. What does the author say the perfect day with her visitor represents?
(a) Being able to ignore someone politely
(b) Being alone when someone is with you
(c) Being too polite to say no
(d) The give and take of relationships

7. What does the author intend to do about the societal implications of age?
(a) Ignore them
(b) Get rid of them
(c) Mitigate them
(d) Survive them

8. Why does Anne say about the tasks at home and time?
(a) They are quick and easy
(b) They eat up valuable time
(c) Her husband helps her
(d) They are fun with her children

9. What does Anne believe concentrating on the world's problems might do to someone?
(a) Keep them from having children
(b) Keep their lives in chaos
(c) Keep them from solving their own problems
(d) Keep them from helping individuals

10. Why is the author amused by the oyster shell?
(a) It reminds her of her father
(b) It is reminiscent of her life at the moment
(c) It is reminiscent of her religion
(d) It reminds her of her youth

11. What are people expected to know in modern life?
(a) How to be a good spouse
(b) How to raise children
(c) About everything that goes on
(d) How to earn money

12. The world is so large and devoid of individuality that the author worries about what?
(a) If people are becoming more violent
(b) If life is becoming more difficult
(c) If people just follow the trends
(d) If it is possible to care sufficiently for the whole

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

14. What does she want to relate to her city life from the beach?
(a) Relate work to play
(b) Relate the beach people to the city people
(c) Relate the shells to cycles
(d) Relate the island paradise to every day life

15. What is there little time at home to do, according to the author?
(a) Conscious reflection with or without people
(b) Eat a leisurely meal
(c) Play golf
(d) Walk the dog in the park

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes people seem different on the island from people in the city?

2. How does society deal with middle/late age?

3. What does Anne see as how people seem in modern life?

4. How does Anne feel as she leaves the sea?

5. Between what two poles have women swung, in the past?

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