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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part IV (pages 149 - 188).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What specific kind of reality television do the couple at 1217 Ridgewood Road like to watch?
(a) Hoarders.
(b) Extreme obesity and weight-loss shows.
(c) Survivor.
(d) The Bachelor.

2. Why does the narrator in the story "A Pat" seek out desperate people to help?
(a) She is mandated as part of her parole agreement to do community service.
(b) Her father told her to be kind to people.
(c) Her mother once told her to look for ugly, hopeless people to make friends with.
(d) She does many other bad things, so she feels the need to balance them with acts of charity.

3. Where has Kate just taken a new job in the story "North Country"?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
(c) The University of Nebraska.
(d) The Michigan Institute of Technology.

4. What does the narrator's lover do for a living in "Bone Density"?
(a) He is a chef.
(b) He is a poet.
(c) He is a musician.
(d) He is a software engineer.

5. What does William Livingston III do to Sarah at her apartment?
(a) He rapes her.
(b) He beats her badly and breaks her leg.
(c) He asks her why she cut back her hours at the strip club.
(d) He asks her to marry him.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Stephanie's father die?

2. Who is the unnamed narrator's best friend in the story "Baby Arm"?

3. What kind of a professor is David, the narrator's husband?

4. Who is Stephanie's father's mistress?

5. Who is the mother of Father Michael Patrick Minty in the story "Bad Priest"?

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