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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (Office Hours - Peking Duck, Pages 137 - 182).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old is the narrator in "Returning" when she writes her novel?
(a) 23.
(b) 19.
(c) 28.
(d) 35.

2. What happens to the flowers Marie brings from the passageway to her office in "Office Hours"?
(a) They bloom into a garden.
(b) They smell very fragrant.
(c) They disappear.
(d) They immediately rot.

3. What is the background of the narrator's ex-boyfriend in "Yeti Lovemaking"?
(a) He is Australian.
(b) He comes from an "exhausting" Germanic line.
(c) He is British.
(d) He is Chinese.

4. What does the narrator do when she is first married in "Returning"?
(a) Attempt suicide.
(b) Get several new jobs.
(c) Devote herself to being a good housewife.
(d) Have a baby right away.

5. Who always speaks first in the narrator's writing class in "Peking Duck"?
(a) Alice.
(b) Gladys.
(c) Henry.
(d) Thom.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is one of Marie's colleagues in "Office Hours"?

2. Whose house is the get-together at where the narrator meets old friends in the story "Returning"?

3. What does Beatrice think feels different about the G she takes with Bonnie in the story "G"?

4. What does Beatrice have trouble doing in the end of the story "G"?

5. What does the professor tell Marie shortly before he dies in "Office Hours"?

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