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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How old were Hanna and her twin sister when their mother left the family?
(a) About 11.
(b) About 4.
(c) About 6.
(d) About 16.

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

3. What does the narrator of "I Am A Knife" have to do for her sister that saves her sister's life?
(a) Delivers her baby at home.
(b) Carries her out of a burning house.
(c) Fashions a tourniquet to stop bad bleeding.
(d) Gives her CPR after she has been immersed in a pool.

4. What do the narrator and her husband speak about right before he asks her to have an open marriage in the story "Open Marriage"?
(a) Whether or not kale is really good for you.
(b) Whether or not yogurt can expire.
(c) What gluten-free really means.
(d) What kind of gun is best for self-defense.

5. What kind of a professor is David, the narrator's husband?
(a) English.
(b) Mathematics.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) Mechanical and biomedical engineering.

6. What does David do with the narrator when they go for a walk in the snowy woods?
(a) He throws away all her cigarettes so she can not find them.
(b) He takes a picnic that they eat, shivering in the snow.
(c) He takes her picture, even though she hates it.
(d) He asks her to have sex with him.

7. Who is Natasha's husband in "Break All the Way Down"?
(a) Ben.
(b) Manuel.
(c) Jackson.
(d) George.

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

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

10. 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 was hit by a car and killed in a parking lot.
(d) He fell down the stairs and died.

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

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

13. In what way is Hanna deceiving her husband?
(a) He thinks they are trying to have a baby, but Hanna has had her tubes tied.
(b) She has a whole other family in a town nearby.
(c) She is secretly writing a novel based on their life.
(d) She is stashing part of her pay away in anticipation of running away.

14. What happens to the stone thrower's wife as they have sex?
(a) A humming sound emanates from her body.
(b) She becomes ill and needs to rest.
(c) Tiny cracks appear in her glass body.
(d) Her body fogs in a pattern outward from her heart.

15. Who is Hanna's twin sister's husband?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Luke.
(c) Logan.
(d) Larry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Hanna and Laura know each other?

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

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

4. How did Stephanie's father die?

5. What is the stone thrower afraid of when he and his glass wife go to the opera?

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