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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Voices Carry?
2. Whose house burns down?
3. Who is Debra Reid?
4. What movie did Machado's middle school teacher show her class?
5. What does the Woman in the Dream House admit to Muchado, which Muchado views as the end of the world?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Machado often find herself wondering about?
2. What did Debra Reid once tell a reporter she wanted?
3. Where does the woman in the Dream House live?
4. Who is Debra Reid?
5. What does a TSA agent confiscate from Machado?
6. Who is Nick?
7. What was supposed to happen in 2012?
8. Who does Machado see when she visits Berkeley?
9. How does the Woman in the Dream House break up with Machado?
10. What is on display at the Brooklyn Museum when Machado visits with her girlfriend?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay in which you explore Machado's writing on the importance and impact of queerness in media and art. How are queer people typically depicted in the media, and why are these standard modes of representation more complicated than simply being good or bad?
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay in which you explore Machado's point that places are never just places in a piece of writing. What does this mean, and how does this logic manifest itself in Machado's own work? Use examples from the text to support your thoughts.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay in which you discuss the power dynamics in Machado's relationship with the woman in the Dream House. Who has power in this relationship, and why? What efforts does Machado take to regain power, and how and why do they ultimately fail?
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