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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What do the narrator and her husband do at the very end of "Returning"?
(a) Get a divorce.
(b) Kiss.
(c) Fight.
(d) Look at each other.

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

5. Where is Marie's office in "Office Hours"?
(a) Godspeed Hall.
(b) Cold Hallow.
(c) Mitchell Hall.
(d) Maning Hall.

6. Who discovers the passageway in "Office Hours" at the end?
(a) The professor's widow.
(b) The professor's daughter.
(c) Carolyn.
(d) Sean.

7. What does the narrator's mother work at in "Peking Duck"?
(a) Law.
(b) Child care.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Medicine.

8. What does the narrator prefer to drink when she regularly drinks in "Returning"?
(a) Vodka soda with lime.
(b) Gin and tonic.
(c) Manhattan.
(d) Old Fashioned.

9. How does the narrator get out of the airport in "Returning"?
(a) She does not get out.
(b) A guard helps her.
(c) Peter comes back for her.
(d) She sneaks out.

10. What is the problem the flight attendant tells the narrator with the festival in the story "Returning"?
(a) The ceremony is dark magic.
(b) The ceremony is outlawed.
(c) Not everyone survives the ceremony.
(d) The ceremony does not really work.

11. In "Returning," how many things does the narrator believe make a cocktail?
(a) 3.
(b) 5.
(c) 2.
(d) 4.

12. What conference does Marie present at in "Office Hours"?
(a) HFF.
(b) GFF.
(c) BFF.
(d) JFF.

13. Why is the narrator worried about Peter in the end of the story "Returning"?
(a) He is not in the grave.
(b) He is not breathing.
(c) He has drowned.
(d) His eyes are closed at first when they dig him up.

14. What does the narrator's mother always drink in restaurants in "Peking Duck"?
(a) Tea.
(b) Juice.
(c) Soda.
(d) Water.

15. What is the name of the narrator's husband in "Returning"?
(a) Michael.
(b) Yo.
(c) Peter.
(d) Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Office Hours," how long would Marie and the professor talk during her junior year?

2. In "Returning," who is the flight attendant there when the narrator wakes up?

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

4. What do Marie's visits to the passageway do as time goes on in "Office Hours"?

5. What is the coffee shop Marie often goes to in "Office Hours"?

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