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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the stone thrower afraid of when he and his glass wife go to the opera?
(a) That a singer will hit a note with a frequency that will shatter his glass wife's body.
(b) That he and his wife will not be able to get good seats.
(c) That they will not be able to understand what is happening on stage.
(d) That his glass wife will not like the music.

2. What do Ben and Natasha do with all of the things from their son's nursery?
(a) Keep them for their next baby.
(b) Give them away.
(c) Burn them in their backyard.
(d) Sell them.

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

4. 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 off her wedding ring and drops it on the table.
(d) She takes all the money out of their bank account.

5. What kind of a house does the stone thrower live in in the story "Requiem for a Glass Heart"?
(a) A wood house.
(b) A stone house.
(c) A glass house.
(d) A concrete house.

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

7. What is one of the things Milly is good at?
(a) She is a good cook.
(b) She is a good listener.
(c) She is a good hairdresser.
(d) She is a good masseuse.

8. Who is Hanna's mother?
(a) Laura.
(b) Ilse.
(c) Anna.
(d) Eloise.

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

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

11. Where does Hanna work?
(a) La Mer Zou, the fanciest restaurant in town.
(b) The Snappy Diner.
(c) The local hospital.
(d) The Koivu cafe.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Stephanie's father's mistress?

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

3. What is the subject of the Bible verse Father Minty's mother asks him to read at the end of "Bad Priest"?

4. What does the narrator of "Bone Density" do for a living?

5. What does Natasha's mother say to her when she tells her what happened to her young son in "Break All the Way Down"?

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