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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of the Bible verse Father Minty's mother asks him to read at the end of "Bad Priest"?
(a) Hypocrisy.
(b) Charity.
(c) Temptation and endurance.
(d) Humility.

2. Who does Hanna sometimes kiss in a romantic way?
(a) Sarah.
(b) Carolina.
(c) Savvie.
(d) Laura.

3. Where do Rebekah and Father Minty have sex for the first time?
(a) In Father Minty's car.
(b) In the church.
(c) In a diner bathroom.
(d) In the department store.

4. What do the narrator and her husband pour over themselves when they go deer hunting in the story "I Am a Knife"?
(a) Rabbit blood.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Gin.
(d) Deer pee.

5. How does the stone thrower's wife feel about her child with the stone thrower?
(a) She is afraid the child will break.
(b) The child makes her angry.
(c) The child makes her sad.
(d) She loves the child deeply.

6. How did Stephanie's father die?
(a) He had a stroke.
(b) He overdosed on drugs.
(c) He was shot by a business partner.
(d) He was driving too fast on an icy bridge.

7. What does the narrator of "Bone Density" do for a living?
(a) She is a painter.
(b) She is a software engineer.
(c) She is a writer.
(d) She is a lawyer.

8. What special communication system do Hanna and her twin sister share?
(a) They use their own hand gestures only they understand.
(b) They have a special twin language.
(c) They have different pitches of whistles that mean different things.
(d) They can read each others' thoughts.

9. Who is Hanna's father?
(a) The Man in Black.
(b) Manny.
(c) Red.
(d) Alvarez.

10. What does Father Minty's mother seem to notice about him months after he starts seeing Rebekah?
(a) She seems to notice he is thinner.
(b) She seems to notice he is losing his hair.
(c) She seems to notice that something is different and suspects it might have to do with a woman.
(d) She seems to notice he is taking more care with his appearance.

11. What is the name of the narrator's sister's boyfriend in "I Am A Knife"?
(a) Alvarez.
(b) Grant.
(c) William.
(d) Bennett.

12. What kind of a professor is David, the narrator's husband?
(a) Mechanical and biomedical engineering.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) English.

13. What did Hanna do to a boy who was mistreating her twin sister in high school?
(a) Held a gun to his head and told him never to touch her sister.
(b) Bit on his penis, and threatened him.
(c) Drugged him and gave him a terrible tattoo.
(d) Picked him up in her car, drove him hours into the woods, and left him there.

14. Who is the mother of Father Michael Patrick Minty in the story "Bad Priest"?
(a) Mary.
(b) Maeve.
(c) Maureen.
(d) Nora.

15. What habit does the narrator engage in that her husband chastises her for in "Bone Density"?
(a) Smoking.
(b) Biting her nails.
(c) Running.
(d) Drinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hanna's husband work?

2. Who is Hanna's twin sister?

3. How does Jack get to Milly's apartment?

4. Where do the narrator and her husband live in "I Am a Knife"?

5. What is Father Michael Patrick Minty's nickname?

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