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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. What does the professor tell Marie he has left in the woods in "Office Hours"?
(a) His dog.
(b) His book.
(c) His best friend.
(d) His coffee from many years ago.

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

3. What book does the narrator write in "Returning"?
(a) Five Days.
(b) Molina.
(c) Two Weeks.
(d) The Alien.

4. What work does the narrator do in "Peking Duck"?
(a) Law.
(b) Writing.
(c) Accounting.
(d) Medicine.

5. What does the professor tell Marie shortly before he dies in "Office Hours"?
(a) He has always loved her.
(b) He is divorced.
(c) He wants her to take care of his dog.
(d) He is ill.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Returning," what does the narrator's traveling companion take before she wakes up?

2. Who helps dig the people up from the Morning Ceremony in "Returning"?

3. What has Y written in the story "Returning"?

4. Why does the narrator have a hard time leaving the airport in "Returning"?

5. Where does the narrator move when she first comes to the U.S. in "Peking Duck"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tradition do the narrator and Peter go to Garboza for in "Returning"?

2. Why do the narrator and her mother never eat peking duck in the story "Peking Duck"?

3. What does the narrator act like when she is first married to Peter in "Returning"?

4. What is the danger of the "Morning Ritual" in "Returning"?

5. What is the narrator's relationship with Y like in "Returning"?

6. How does the narrator in "Returning" feel at her college reunion?

7. What does Marie specialize in in "Office Hours"?

8. What does Peter tell the narrator he believes in when they get engaged in "Returning"?

9. What is Peter's novel, Homecoming, about?

10. What is the narrator's reaction to Peter's gifting her the engagement ring in "Returning"?

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