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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (pages 189 - 256).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does a crazy woman bring to her child's school for a snack that another mother does not like in the story "Difficult Women"?
(a) Fruit roll-ups.
(b) Peanut butter.
(c) Cookies.
(d) Ice cream.

2. What effect does death have on girls in the story "Difficult Women"?
(a) It makes them repugnant.
(b) It makes them more interesting and beautiful.
(c) It makes them sorrowful.
(d) It makes them ugly.

3. What do the priests who were sent to deal with Bianca say about her?
(a) That they could pray away the evil in her.
(b) That she should become a nun.
(c) That they could cure her with exorcism.
(d) That whatever was wrong with her was the fault of the devil.

4. In the story "Difficult Women," who does a loose woman never look up to?
(a) Her mother.
(b) Her professor.
(c) Her supervisor.
(d) Her father.

5. When does Hanna do her best thinking in the story "How"?
(a) While she is running.
(b) In the mid-afternoon as she drinks her coffee.
(c) Late at night when everyone else in the house is asleep.
(d) In the early morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Hanna sometimes kiss in a romantic way?

2. Why do the narrator and Joshua keep their pregnancy secret for as long as they can?

3. What does Milly look like in the story "Best Features"?

4. What does William Livingston III force his housekeeper to do?

5. What secret of the stone thrower's does the stone thrower's glass wife discover?

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