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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) To visit his mistress so he can have sex with her.
(d) Fishing.

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

3. What does the narrator's lover do for a living in "Bone Density"?
(a) He is a software engineer.
(b) He is a poet.
(c) He is a musician.
(d) He is a chef.

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

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

6. What is Rebekah doing when Father Minty calls her to come see him after dinner with his mother at the end of "Bad Priest"?
(a) She is playing board games with her little sister.
(b) She is volunteering at the homeless shelter.
(c) She is on a date with another man.
(d) Drinking with her girlfriends.

7. Who leaves her baby with Natasha in the story "Break All the Way Down"?
(a) Miriam.
(b) Anna Lisa.
(c) Joy.
(d) Riley.

8. How old was Father Minty when his father left the family?
(a) 7.
(b) 10.
(c) 15.
(d) 4.

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

10. What does the stone thrower's wife most enjoy about her day?
(a) Repairing the cracks in her body.
(b) Cleaning her house.
(c) Visiting her family.
(d) Stripping off her clothes and walking through the world unseen, running through the park.

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

12. What is Father Michael Patrick Minty's nickname?
(a) Father Mitch.
(b) Father Mickey.
(c) Mort.
(d) Minty.

13. What does the narrator of "Bone Density" find in David's luggage when he comes back from Philadelphia?
(a) A book signed by his favorite author.
(b) A Polaroid picture of him with a young brunette.
(c) An expensive and fragile vase.
(d) A gift from his girlfriend.

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

15. How does Jack get to Milly's apartment?
(a) He rides his bike.
(b) He walks.
(c) He drives.
(d) He takes the bus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the narrator and her husband speak about right before he asks her to have an open marriage in the story "Open Marriage"?

2. What happened to Natasha's child in "Break All the Way Down"?

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

4. What special communication system do Hanna and her twin sister share?

5. Who is Hanna's mother?

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