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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 show Marie shortly before he dies in "Office Hours"?
(a) The sea.
(b) The magical candle.
(c) The chamber to another dimension.
(d) The book.

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

3. What does the narrator's mother ask about her writing in the story "Peking Duck"?
(a) How much money she makes.
(b) How long it takes her to write.
(c) Where she gets her ideas.
(d) Whether she likes her work or not.

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

5. Where does the narrator see Peter walking without her in the story "Returning"?
(a) Towards the town.
(b) To the plane.
(c) Towards the taxis.
(d) Towards the sea.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Marie's office in "Office Hours"?

2. Where is the professor's memorial service held at the university in "Office Hours"?

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

4. Who discovers the passageway in "Office Hours" at the end?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. In "Office Hours," what conflicts does Marie have in her department?

2. What is the narrator's story, Two Weeks, about in "Returning"?

3. What is one student's criticism of the narrator's story about the nanny in "Peking Duck"?

4. Why does the narrator panic a bit at the end of "Returning"?

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

6. Why does the narrator realize she cannot leave the airport in "Returning"?

7. In "Office Hours," what does the professor show Marie before he dies?

8. How does the narrator eventually get out of the airport in "Returning"?

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

10. Why does Marie think she may have ended up on the tenure track in "Office Hours"?

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