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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 Eleven: Footsteps in the House, what does Deborah say she remembered?
(a) Coming to Britain at age nine.
(b) Crying.
(c) Coming to South Africa at age nine.
(d) Being happy.

2. In Chapter Seven: The Black and Blueish Darkness, what does Deborah say she got her mother on her mother's deathbed?
(a) Nuts.
(b) Bananas.
(c) Chocolate.
(d) Ice lollies.

3. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, what does Deborah say the young woman was studying?
(a) Arabic.
(b) Italian.
(c) French.
(d) Latin.

4. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, what does Deborah say her daughters were watching?
(a) The Great British Baking Show.
(b) Thomas.
(c) Top Chef.
(d) Top Gun.

5. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say she becomes in grief?
(a) Happy.
(b) A magnet for others who are lost.
(c) Alone.
(d) Sad.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say Clara thought Deborah's life was?

2. In Chapter Nine: Night Wandering, what does Deborah say we expect our mothers to do?

3. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, what does Deborah say she asked the man on the train?

4. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say Clara said her mother's life was for?

5. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say Clara said about shortening the past?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Chapter Seven: The Black and Bluish Darkness, what meeting does Deborah say she went to? How did she feel at the meeting?

2. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, who does Deborah say took to driving her around the city and why? Who also rode with them?

3. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, where does Deborah say she saw the word "winterized"? How did she apply this to herself?

4. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, what does Deborah say her friend told her about her husband? What did Deborah muse about this?

5. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, who does Deborah say she met? What did Deborah advise?

6. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, what does Deborah say Clara thought of Deborah's life? What does Deborah say she thought of this?

7. In Chapter Seven: The Black and Bluish Darkness, what does Deborah say she needed to compose? How does she apply this as a metaphor?

8. In Chapter Eight: The Republic, what does Deborah say Simone de Beauvoir fought against so strongly? Who did she refuse in this quest?

9. In Chapter Ten: X is Where I Am, how does Deborah say she felt after her mother's death? What did she ride instead of an e-bike?

10. In Chapter Eleven: Footsteps in the House, how do footsteps factor into the chapter? What do they symbolically represent?

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