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

2. Who is one of Marie's colleagues in "Office Hours"?
(a) Henry.
(b) Biff.
(c) Jennifer.
(d) Carolyn.

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

4. What does Marie sleep on in her own apartment in "Office Hours"?
(a) The floor.
(b) A futon.
(c) A very expensive mattress.
(d) An inflatable bed.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator's mother always drink in restaurants in "Peking Duck"?

2. What does the narrator's mother work at in "Peking Duck"?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does the older professor let Marie do in "Office Hours" in his office?

3. Why is Sean confused at the end of "Office Hours"?

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

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

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

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

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

9. In "Peking Duck," when does the narrator experience winter for the first time?

10. What is the purpose of the "Morning Ritual" in "Returning"?

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