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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 kind of habits does the narrator know she has in "Returning"?
(a) Obsessive.
(b) Open.
(c) Prayerful.
(d) Incendiary.
2. What happens to the flowers Marie brings from the passageway to her office in "Office Hours"?
(a) They smell very fragrant.
(b) They disappear.
(c) They immediately rot.
(d) They bloom into a garden.
3. What is the coffee shop Marie often goes to in "Office Hours"?
(a) Emblem.
(b) Bulldog's and Veno's.
(c) Stewey's.
(d) Holy Grounds.
4. What does the narrator do when she is first married in "Returning"?
(a) Have a baby right away.
(b) Attempt suicide.
(c) Devote herself to being a good housewife.
(d) Get several new jobs.
5. In "Returning," what does the narrator's traveling companion take before she wakes up?
(a) Their food.
(b) Their child.
(c) Her scarf.
(d) Their travel bag.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Peter say he wants in "Returning"?
2. What can fiction be, according to Peter in "Returning"?
3. In Peking Duck, where does the narrator often go to learn English?
4. What work do both the narrator and her husband do in "Returning"?
5. What kind of batteries are sold in the airport where the narrator travels in "Returning"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Office Hours," what does the professor show Marie before he dies?
2. What is the purpose of the "Morning Ritual" in "Returning"?
3. What is the narrator's relationship with Y like in "Returning"?
4. In "Returning," what does the narrator realize when she wakes up on the plane?
5. What is the narrator's reaction to Peter's gifting her the engagement ring in "Returning"?
6. Why does Marie think she may have ended up on the tenure track in "Office Hours"?
7. What is one student's criticism of the narrator's story about the nanny in "Peking Duck"?
8. What does Peter tell the narrator he believes in when they get engaged in "Returning"?
9. In "Office Hours," what conflicts does Marie have in her department?
10. Why do the narrator and her mother never eat peking duck in the story "Peking Duck"?
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