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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 Milly is good at?
(a) She is a good listener.
(b) She is a good masseuse.
(c) She is a good cook.
(d) She is a good hairdresser.

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

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

4. How does Father Minty first meet Rebekah?
(a) In church.
(b) At his lawyer's office.
(c) In the emergency room waiting area.
(d) At the department store.

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

6. Where does Stephanie's father tell her mother the two of them are going on Saturdays?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Ice Skating.
(c) Shopping.
(d) Hunting.

7. 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 drowned in a swimming pool.
(d) He had cancer and died.

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

9. Where do the narrator and her husband live in "I Am a Knife"?
(a) The North Country.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) The Pacific Northwest.
(d) Florida.

10. What is one part of Father Minty's job that he does not like?
(a) He does not like presiding over funeral services.
(b) He does not like performing baptisms because he does not like children.
(c) He does not like listening to his parishioners, or to anyone at all.
(d) He does not like saying the mass.

11. What is Milly's best physical feature?
(a) Her arms.
(b) Her hair.
(c) Her legs.
(d) Her breasts.

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

13. Who is the narrator's lover in "Bone Density"?
(a) George.
(b) Jackson.
(c) Bennett.
(d) Bailey.

14. 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.

15. What do Ben and Natasha do with the baby they have been given to care for?
(a) They take her to a state far away near the ocean.
(b) They return her to her mother.
(c) They give her to the man Natasha had been living with, who is the baby's father.
(d) They put her up for adoption.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old were Hanna and her twin sister when their mother left the family?

2. What happens to the stone thrower's wife as they have sex?

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

4. Who is Hanna's mother?

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

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