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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 does Machado realize about herself?

2. Who does Machado marry?

3. Where does Machado go in New York?

4. How does Machado get home from the bowling alley?

5. What is something Machado says she will never forget?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Debra Reid?

2. What happened to most of the Framingham Eight?

3. Where is Machado when her story ends?

4. What happens when Machado falls asleep watching a movie one night?

5. Where does the woman in the Dream House live?

6. Who does Machado see when she visits Berkeley?

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

8. What do the Woman in the Dream House's voicemails sound like?

9. What does Machado often find herself wondering about?

10. What does Machado learn about the body throughout the processing of her trauma?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay in which you examine the Woman in the Dream House. Who is this person, and what kind of person are they? What about their personality and relationship makes her the Woman in the Dream House, and not simply Machado's ex?

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay in which you explore the concept of the Dream House. What is the Dream House, and what impact does it leave on the author, and why?

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay in which you examine Machado's choice to write in second-person narration. What does this method do for the memoir and its stories as a whole, and what effect does it have on readers?

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