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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 narrator do when she is first married in "Returning"?
(a) Get several new jobs.
(b) Devote herself to being a good housewife.
(c) Attempt suicide.
(d) Have a baby right away.

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

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

4. Who always speaks first in the narrator's writing class in "Peking Duck"?
(a) Alice.
(b) Gladys.
(c) Henry.
(d) Thom.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. In "Office Hours," what does Marie do in her old professor's office?

5. What does Marie think might have led to her getting a tenure-track position in "Office Hours"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 narrator's reaction to Peter's gifting her the engagement ring in "Returning"?

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