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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say about this time in the house?
(a) She could not get work.
(b) She could not get paid.
(c) She was tired.
(d) It was her most professionally busy time.

2. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say Clara can do?
(a) Shimmy.
(b) Swim.
(c) Dance.
(d) Put her hair up with one pin.

3. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say she was unmaking?
(a) The home she hated.
(b) The home she spent most of life building.
(c) The home she loved.
(d) The home she despised.

4. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she wondered if she was while repairing the plumbing?
(a) A man.
(b) Too tired for this.
(c) In the wrong career.
(d) Man, woman, and shaman.

5. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say is her imaginary bathroom manifesto?
(a) "I believe in love" (53).
(b) "I believe in people who are nervous and whose hands shake a little" (53).
(c) "I can" (53).
(d) "I can't" (53).

6. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she did to the yellow walls?
(a) Paint them orange.
(b) Paint them blue.
(c) Paint them pink.
(d) Paint them white.

7. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she and her daughter ate for breakfast?
(a) Peeled oranges.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Peeled apples.
(d) Olives.

8. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what is Deborah's marriage in her metaphor?
(a) The sea.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The boat.
(d) The land.

9. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what film does Deborah say she had watched with her ex?
(a) Archibald.
(b) The Avengers.
(c) I, Robot.
(d) A.I Artificial Intelligence.

10. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say the English woman was doing?
(a) Drinking.
(b) Reading.
(c) Eating.
(d) Smoking.

11. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say she added to the shed in winter?
(a) A bookshelf.
(b) A porch.
(c) A heater.
(d) A sofa.

12. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say is behind the wallpaper of the Family Home?
(a) A "happy, joyous woman" (11).
(b) A sliver of pain.
(c) An "unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman" (11).
(d) A secret corridor.

13. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah discuss metaphorically falling apart?
(a) Her ex.
(b) Society and the Patriarchal Story.
(c) The Family Home.
(d) People.

14. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say is the beginning of a new story outside the patriarchy?
(a) A woman becoming happy.
(b) A woman becoming a butterfly.
(c) A woman becoming free.
(d) A woman not feeling at home in her home.

15. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say her older daughter did?
(a) Go to college.
(b) Go to America.
(c) Get a boyfriend.
(d) Move in.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say her neighbor saw her packing?

2. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she saw?

3. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say she stopped at as she walked from her shed to her home?

4. In Chapter Five: Gravity, which fictional character does Deborah say she thought she was?

5. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say her marriage is?

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