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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's husband want to do in the story :Returning" that the narrator is dragging her feet on?
2. What does the narrator tell Y about the trip she is taking with her husband in the story "Returning"?
3. What does Peter say about burying the dead in Garboza in "Returning"?
4. In "Office Hours," what does Marie do in her old professor's office?
5. What does the professor tell Marie he has left in the woods in "Office Hours"?
Short Essay Questions
1. In "Office Hours," what does the professor show Marie before he dies?
2. What is one student's criticism of the narrator's story about the nanny in "Peking Duck"?
3. How does the narrator in "Returning" feel at her college reunion?
4. Why does Marie think she may have ended up on the tenure track in "Office Hours"?
5. In "Returning," what does the narrator realize when she wakes up on the plane?
6. In "Office Hours," what conflicts does Marie have in her department?
7. Why is Sean confused at the end of "Office Hours"?
8. Why does the narrator panic a bit at the end of "Returning"?
9. Why does the narrator realize she cannot leave the airport in "Returning"?
10. How does the narrator eventually get out of the airport in "Returning"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why do you think Ma chose the title "Bliss Montage" for this collection? 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 does the mating call of the yeti and the narrator in "Yeti Lovemaking" symbolize in Ma's telling of this story? Write an essay explaining your answers, citing specific references to the text to help support your conclusions.
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