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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator do when she is first married in "Returning"?

2. What is the name of the narrator's husband in "Returning"?

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

4. What does the professor tell Marie he has left in the woods in "Office Hours"?

5. What do Marie's visits to the passageway do as time goes on in "Office Hours"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. In "Returning," what does the narrator realize when she wakes up on the plane?

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Ma describe the friendship between Bonnie and Beatrice, and what issues of identity do each of these characters struggle with? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 2

Why does the narrator in the story "Los Angeles" choose to live with her 100 ex-boyfriends? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

Essay Topic 3

What are the mother and daughter in the story "Peking Duck" in constant conflict over, and how does Ma represent and communicate this conflict to the reader? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.

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