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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does Peter write in "Returning"?
(a) Going.
(b) Homecoming.
(c) The Feast.
(d) The Reckoning.

2. What does Marie do in the forest at the end of "Office Hours"?
(a) Eat.
(b) Smoke.
(c) Swim.
(d) Scream.

3. What job does Marie eventually take in "Office Hours"?
(a) Film professor.
(b) Lawyer.
(c) Doctor.
(d) Hospital administrator.

4. In "Returning," where does the narrator awaken?
(a) A plane.
(b) A forest.
(c) An unfamiliar apartment.
(d) A lake.

5. Why does the narrator first spend the night at Y's house in "Returning"?
(a) Snowstorm.
(b) Flood.
(c) Her husband kicks her out.
(d) She is drunk.

6. What has Y written in the story "Returning"?
(a) Fallow.
(b) Arrival Fallacy.
(c) Wonderkind.
(d) Helios.

7. Where do the narrator and her husband first meet in the story "Returning"?
(a) A promotion circuit for their books.
(b) As neighbors.
(c) The library.
(d) The farm.

8. What do Marie's visits to the passageway do as time goes on in "Office Hours"?
(a) Become less social.
(b) Become more exploratory.
(c) Become less frequent.
(d) Become angry.

9. What is the coffee shop Marie often goes to in "Office Hours"?
(a) Bulldog's and Veno's.
(b) Emblem.
(c) Stewey's.
(d) Holy Grounds.

10. What does Marie think might have led to her getting a tenure-track position in "Office Hours"?
(a) Her family background.
(b) Her desperation.
(c) Her excellent writing.
(d) Her intellect.

11. What does the narrator take before flying in "Returning"?
(a) Ambien.
(b) Codeine.
(c) Cocaine.
(d) Tylenol.

12. What can fiction be, according to Peter in "Returning"?
(a) A balm.
(b) A space for the alternative self.
(c) Another universe.
(d) A kind of magic.

13. Whose house is the get-together at where the narrator meets old friends in the story "Returning"?
(a) L's.
(b) W's.
(c) Y's.
(d) M's.

14. What can the narrator see through the airport windows in "Returning"?
(a) The camp.
(b) The town on the hill.
(c) The church.
(d) The ocean.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What festival does the narrator tell the flight attendant she and Peter are attending in the story "Returning"?

2. What is the problem the flight attendant tells the narrator with the festival in the story "Returning"?

3. What does the narrator tell Y about the trip she is taking with her husband in the story "Returning"?

4. How old is the narrator in "Returning" when she writes her novel?

5. What does the flight attendant tell the narrator there is the same word for that has two meanings in "Returning"?

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