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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am - Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, what does Deborah say we expect our mothers to do?
(a) Know our anxieties and feelings.
(b) Cook.
(c) Write.
(d) Clean.

2. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, what does Deborah say the man on the train asked the young woman?
(a) If she dyed her hair herself.
(b) To move her laptop.
(c) To leave.
(d) For her number.

3. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say the breaking of the family home is like?
(a) The breaking of a soul.
(b) The breaking of a clock.
(c) The breaking of a love.
(d) The breaking of a heart.

4. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, whom does Deborah say she met on the other side of the train?
(a) Her daughter.
(b) Her editor.
(c) Her lover.
(d) Her ex.

5. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah imagine her unsaid conversations with her ex as?
(a) As a ship in a bottle.
(b) As an ocean of hurt.
(c) As a box in the ocean found in the future by artificial life.
(d) As a plumbing block.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, where does Deborah reference traveling?

2. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say her older daughter did?

3. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, who does Deborah tell us were Simone de Beauvoir's lovers?

4. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, what does Deborah say touched her most about the postcard?

5. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Debra say she and her husband did with the family home?

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