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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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.

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

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

5. What do Father Minty and Rebekah do for dates?
(a) They go to the movies.
(b) They have a picnic in the cemetery.
(c) They sit in the church and pray.
(d) They go to dinner at a restaurant several towns away.

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

7. How do Hanna and Laura know each other?
(a) They are sisters.
(b) They were next door neighbors as children.
(c) They met in a support group.
(d) They met at work.

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

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

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

11. How does the stone thrower's wife feel about her child with the stone thrower?
(a) She loves the child deeply.
(b) The child makes her angry.
(c) The child makes her sad.
(d) She is afraid the child will break.

12. Who is the mother of Father Michael Patrick Minty in the story "Bad Priest"?
(a) Maeve.
(b) Maureen.
(c) Nora.
(d) Mary.

13. When does Hanna do her best thinking in the story "How"?
(a) While she is running.
(b) In the early morning.
(c) In the mid-afternoon as she drinks her coffee.
(d) Late at night when everyone else in the house is asleep.

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

15. What does Milly look like in the story "Best Features"?
(a) She is thin and wan.
(b) She is very tall.
(c) She is fat and ugly.
(d) She is very short.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the things Milly is good at?

2. What habit does the narrator engage in that her husband chastises her for in "Bone Density"?

3. How does Father Minty first meet Rebekah?

4. How did Father Minty's own father die?

5. What went wrong in Hanna's father's life?

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