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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is Hanna's mother?
(a) Laura.
(b) Eloise.
(c) Ilse.
(d) Anna.
2. Who leaves her baby with Natasha in the story "Break All the Way Down"?
(a) Joy.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Riley.
(d) Anna Lisa.
3. What does the narrator's lover do for a living in "Bone Density"?
(a) He is a chef.
(b) He is a software engineer.
(c) He is a poet.
(d) He is a musician.
4. 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) Rabbit blood.
(c) Gin.
(d) Deer pee.
5. How old was Father Minty when his father left the family?
(a) 7.
(b) 4.
(c) 15.
(d) 10.
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 on a date with another man.
(c) Drinking with her girlfriends.
(d) She is volunteering at the homeless shelter.
7. What do Ben and Natasha do with the baby they have been given to care for?
(a) They give her to the man Natasha had been living with, who is the baby's father.
(b) They put her up for adoption.
(c) They take her to a state far away near the ocean.
(d) They return her to her mother.
8. What went wrong in Hanna's father's life?
(a) He came from a long line of thieves and was never expected to earn an honest living.
(b) He became a bitter man after he was passed over for a big promotion in his job.
(c) He was terribly abused in his childhood.
(d) He came from a family of miners, but when the mines closed before he could start work, he was lost.
9. What does the narrator of "I Am A Knife" have to do for her sister that saves her sister's life?
(a) Carries her out of a burning house.
(b) Delivers her baby at home.
(c) Fashions a tourniquet to stop bad bleeding.
(d) Gives her CPR after she has been immersed in a pool.
10. The narrator refers to herself as a knife. What does she refer to her husband as?
(a) An axe.
(b) A blanket.
(c) A gun.
(d) A hammer.
11. Who does Hanna sometimes kiss in a romantic way?
(a) Savvie.
(b) Carolina.
(c) Sarah.
(d) Laura.
12. What is the stone thrower afraid of when he and his glass wife go to the opera?
(a) That he and his wife will not be able to get good seats.
(b) That his glass wife will not like the music.
(c) That a singer will hit a note with a frequency that will shatter his glass wife's body.
(d) That they will not be able to understand what is happening on stage.
13. How does the stone thrower's wife feel about her child with the stone thrower?
(a) The child makes her sad.
(b) She is afraid the child will break.
(c) The child makes her angry.
(d) She loves the child deeply.
14. How old is Hanna?
(a) 27, but she looks far younger.
(b) 40.
(c) 35, but she looks far older.
(d) 18.
15. What does the narrator of "Bone Density" do for a living?
(a) She is a painter.
(b) She is a lawyer.
(c) She is a software engineer.
(d) She is a writer.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the subject of the Bible verse Father Minty's mother asks him to read at the end of "Bad Priest"?
2. What does Father Minty's mother seem to notice about him months after he starts seeing Rebekah?
3. What kind of a professor is David, the narrator's husband?
4. How old were Hanna and her twin sister when their mother left the family?
5. What do the narrator and her husband speak about right before he asks her to have an open marriage in the story "Open Marriage"?
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