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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one of the things the stone thrower's wife does during the day?
(a) She secretly visits her family from the beach.
(b) She goes to her job at an office.
(c) She cleans their glass house and all their glass things.
(d) She repairs the cracks in her body.

2. What do the narrator and her husband speak about right before he asks her to have an open marriage in the story "Open Marriage"?
(a) Whether or not kale is really good for you.
(b) What gluten-free really means.
(c) Whether or not yogurt can expire.
(d) What kind of gun is best for self-defense.

3. What does Rebekah do for a living?
(a) She is a law clerk.
(b) She is a waitress.
(c) She works at a perfume counter.
(d) She is a nun.

4. Who is Stephanie's father's mistress?
(a) Martina.
(b) Carmella.
(c) Teresa.
(d) Sierra.

5. What happened to Natasha's child in "Break All the Way Down"?
(a) He was hit by a car and killed in a parking lot.
(b) He fell down the stairs and died.
(c) He had cancer and died.
(d) He drowned in a swimming pool.

6. What does the narrator of "I Am A Knife" have to do for her sister that saves her sister's life?
(a) Fashions a tourniquet to stop bad bleeding.
(b) Carries her out of a burning house.
(c) Delivers her baby at home.
(d) Gives her CPR after she has been immersed in a pool.

7. What does Stephanie do with Teresa after her father dies?
(a) She and Teresa go to church together.
(b) She visits Teresa at her trailer and appears to have a sexual encounter with her.
(c) She and Teresa start eating dinner together a few times per week.
(d) She and Teresa move in together.

8. What does Ben ask Natasha repeatedly to do that is related to their dead child?
(a) Ben asks Natasha to donate their son's clothes.
(b) Ben asks Natasha to say their child's name.
(c) Ben asks Natasha to go to a therapist to talk about what happened to their son.
(d) Ben asks Natasha to visit their son's grave with him.

9. Where does Stephanie's father take her on Saturday mornings in the story "In the Event of my Father's Death"?
(a) Shopping.
(b) Ice skating.
(c) Fishing.
(d) To visit his mistress so he can have sex with her.

10. Where does Hanna's husband work?
(a) In the local mines.
(b) He is unemployed.
(c) At the diner.
(d) At the hospital.

11. How old is Hanna?
(a) 40.
(b) 35, but she looks far older.
(c) 27, but she looks far younger.
(d) 18.

12. 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) Temptation and endurance.
(c) Charity.
(d) Humility.

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

14. What does Hanna do to signal to her husband that she is leaving him?
(a) She kisses him gently good-bye, which she never does.
(b) She takes a suitcase with all her clothes in it.
(c) She takes all the money out of their bank account.
(d) She takes off her wedding ring and drops it on the table.

15. How did Father Minty's own father die?
(a) He was shot in a robbery.
(b) He was hit by a car.
(c) Watching a baseball game in his apartment with a 6-pack of beer.
(d) He fell and hit his head on the church sidewalk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Natasha's husband in "Break All the Way Down"?

2. What is the stone thrower afraid of when he and his glass wife go to the opera?

3. What do Father Minty and Rebekah do for dates?

4. Who is Hanna's twin sister?

5. The narrator refers to herself as a knife. What does she refer to her husband as?

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