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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. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, where does Deborah say she was listening to a conversation?
(a) At a bar in Oceana.
(b) At a bar in Mexico.
(c) At a bar in Idaho.
(d) At a bar in Columbia.

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

3. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say her marriage is?
(a) "An avocado on the counter that will never ripen" (6).
(b) "Good" (6).
(c) "Bad" (6).
(d) "The ghost that will always haunt [her] life" (6).

4. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say was above the water when the woman came up?
(a) A boat.
(b) A storm.
(c) A hurricane.
(d) A rainbow.

5. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she needed?
(a) The same composition.
(b) The old composition.
(c) A new composition.
(d) A dog.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say she added to the shed in winter?

2. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what does Deborah say is Mervvy's full name?

3. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she resurfaced from?

4. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say Big Silver said he was?

5. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what author does Deborah say wrote a poem about bees that Deborah remembers?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what did Deborah say she noticed about her male friends and colleagues? What did this lead her to question?

2. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she had seen in Brazil? How had she applied this to her divorcee life?

3. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah write about her supporting her family in this time? What does she say about her freedom?

4. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, what does Deborah say she repaired? How did this repair become a metaphor?

5. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, what does Deborah say she resented most about her divorce? How does she say she thought of her unhappiness?

6. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say the young woman talked about? What did the man say in response?

7. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what metaphor from earlier in the book did Deborah apply to the party she went to? How did she apply this metaphor to women?

8. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, who does Deborah say was named "Big Silver"? Why was he called this?

9. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, why did Deborah say she painted her walls yellow? Why did she paint them back to white?

10. In Chapter Two: The Tempest, how does Deborah apply the Big Silver metaphor to herself? How does she say she applied it to in her own life?

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