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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 Three: Nets, what does Debra say the packing up sent her back to?
(a) Moving from South Africa at age nine.
(b) Old dreams.
(c) Moving from Britain at age nine.
(d) Old regrets.

2. In Chapter Five: Body Electric, what does Deborah say she thought she was doing?
(a) Dying.
(b) Passing from one hour to another.
(c) Rebirthing.
(d) Passing from one life to another.

3. In Chapter Five: Gravity, who does Deborah say were the characters in the play she remembered?
(a) Lavelli and Bennet.
(b) Archie and Reginald.
(c) Apples and Oranges.
(d) April and May.

4. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, who does Deborah say she overheard?
(a) An American man and English woman.
(b) An American man.
(c) A nightmare.
(d) An English woman.

5. In Chapter Five: Gravity, whose hut does Deborah say she thought of assembling for herself?
(a) Archie's.
(b) Lavelli's.
(c) Bennet's.
(d) Heidegger's.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah say was above the water when the woman came up?

2. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say her male friend's new wife's name?

3. In Chapter Four: Living in Yellow, where was the apartment Deborah says she moved to?

4. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say the man she met at the party reminded her of?

5. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say a mother and wife does?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Three: Nets, what does Deborah say she and her ex-husband did to the family home? What did this action send her back to?

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

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

4. In Chapter Five: Gravity, what did Deborah say she started going through? What does she say the paragraph she read reminded her of?

5. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, what does Deborah say she bought? Why did she buy this?

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

7. In Chapter Six: The Body Electric, who does Deborah say she was annoyed by? Why did this person annoy her this way?

8. In Chapter Five: Gravity, who does Deborah say came to her rescue? How did this person rescue her?

9. In Chapter One: The Big Silver, what does Deborah Levy say she wrote about the Big Silver conversation after she witnessed it? What does she say she thought about the young woman?

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

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