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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. What is a double-sunrise shell?
(a) Two shells joined at the center
(b) A shell with red and orange on both sides
(c) A shell formed from coral
(d) A shell found a sunrise

2. What does the state of ease allow?
(a) For her to relax
(b) Her to focus on inner thoughts and observations
(c) For her to talk to others
(d) For her to sleep

3. What does the author suggest people living in society are like?
(a) Islands
(b) Grains of sand, crowded and gritty
(c) Trees, with branches reaching out to each other
(d) Waves

4. What could happen without inner strength and spiritual solidity?
(a) One could get sick
(b) One could be a criminal
(c) One will be depleted
(d) One could die

5. To what does the author compare the inner point of the moon shell?
(a) Pregnancy
(b) A marriage ring
(c) To a pupil of the eye
(d) The circle of life

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To whom will the sea not give its gifts?

3. To what does Anne compare saying good-bye?

4. What does the author say is required to obtain simplicity?

5. The author compares to the channeled whelk to what of hers?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the mindset of the second week similar or different from her mindset in the city?

2. What does Anne find on one of her first walks on the beach and what does she wonder about it?

3. The author suggests that women are designed to be giving. How does she tie in giving with solitude?

4. What are obstacles to simplicity in Anne's life?

5. How does the author believe her life has been shaped?

6. How does the author suggest women should obtain solitude?

7. How does the author see people, since being at the beach?

8. What happens to Anne's mind the second week at the beach?

9. What are the author's intentions for her time at the beach and is she successful?

10. How does the author suggest one might rejuvenate a relationship?

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