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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Tricia judge the people she cleans houses for?
(a) She talks to them, and if they are unfriendly or ignore her, she decides they are bad people.
(b) By the quality of their shoes.
(c) By their accents.
(d) By their skin color.

2. Where has Marcy lived her whole life before moving to Florida in the story "Florida"?
(a) The Midwest.
(b) Europe.
(c) The Northeast.
(d) California.

3. 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 to marry him.
(d) He asks her why she cut back her hours at the strip club.

4. What is one part of her new community that Marcy enjoys participating in?
(a) The job training program.
(b) Happy hour.
(c) Fitness classes.
(d) The knitting classes.

5. Where does Alvarez work?
(a) At Georgetown University.
(b) At a hospital.
(c) At a museum.
(d) At a diner a few doors down from the strip club.

6. What is Bianca's husband's name?
(a) Darren.
(b) Don.
(c) Dean.
(d) Doug.

7. What university does Sarah attend?
(a) Georgetown University.
(b) University of Maryland.
(c) Johns Hopkins.
(d) American University.

8. What sport does Manny play recreationally?
(a) Cricket.
(b) Soccer.
(c) Rugby.
(d) Tennis.

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

10. What does the narrator discover at her medical appointment at the end of the story "The Mark of Cain"?
(a) She is pregnant with twins.
(b) She needs to have a limb amputated.
(c) Her cancer has spread from her breast to her lungs.
(d) She will need surgery for a brain tumor.

11. Why do the couple that live in 1217 Ridgewood Road in the story "Florida" get their GEDs instead of finishing high school?
(a) They wanted to do an accelerate college program.
(b) They wanted to get married before graduating from high school.
(c) They wanted to leave town to travel the world.
(d) They wanted to start the high-paying jobs they were offered before graduating from high school.

12. What does a frigid woman wear in the story "Difficult Women"?
(a) Baggy sweatpants and shirts.
(b) Business skirts and suits that fit loosely.
(c) Form-fitting clothes that show off her lean and toned body.
(d) Pajamas.

13. Where does Savvie's sister, Carolina, want Savvie to go with her to find her estranged husband?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Reno.
(c) New Orleans.
(d) San Francisco.

14. Where do Bianca and her husband go on their honeymoon?
(a) Hawaii.
(b) The Sahara Desert.
(c) Mali.
(d) Death Valley.

15. What do the twins in ""The Mark of Cain" do for a living?
(a) They are lawyers who started their own firm together.
(b) They work at an architecture firm they started together.
(c) They are chefs who started a restaurant together.
(d) They are painters.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does a frigid woman surround herself with in the story "Difficult Women"?

2. Who becomes Kate's boyfriend?

3. Where is Bianca raised?

4. Which identical twin does the narrator in "The Mark of Cain" prefer?

5. What does Sal do that upsets Caridad?

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