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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 does Machado sometimes wonder about?
(a) If she is really a lesbian.
(b) How her abusive relationship could have gone right.
(c) If she is trans.
(d) If she should have stayed with her ex.

2. What did Machado think about her abusive situation when it first started?
(a) That she should tell her girlfriend's parents.
(b) That she was not special.
(c) That she needed to tell someone.
(d) That she was special.

3. What is Nick like?
(a) He likes fishing.
(b) He is Republican.
(c) He likes cooking.
(d) He is a Democrat.

4. Why was Debra Reid wronged, according to Muchado?
(a) She was a black bisexual.
(b) She was a black lesbian.
(c) She was a black transgender woman.
(d) She was straight.

5. What does the Woman in the Dream House say one day randomly?
(a) She wants to move to Paris.
(b) She wants to move to New York.
(c) She wants to apply to Iowa again.
(d) She wants to break up.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Machado fall?

2. Where does Machado go to write the rest of this book?

3. What does Machado reveal to Val after the breakup?

4. What does Machado want?

5. Who is the ghost of the Dream House?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Machado spend her entire second year of grad school doing?

2. What does Machado do the first time her ex tries to contact her after the breakup?

3. Who is Debra Reid?

4. What happens when Machado goes bowling with the Woman in the Dream House?

5. What does a TSA agent confiscate from Machado?

6. What does Machado develop after the Dream House?

7. What does it take a while for Machado to realize about her relationship with the woman in the Dream House?

8. Who is Amber?

9. What does Machado have trouble doing after the breakup?

10. What did Debra Reid once tell a reporter she wanted?

(see the answer keys)

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