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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect does death have on girls in the story "Difficult Women"?
(a) It makes them ugly.
(b) It makes them repugnant.
(c) It makes them sorrowful.
(d) It makes them more interesting and beautiful.

2. What news does the narrator share with Jacob first towards the end of the story "The Mark of Cain"?
(a) She has a child in another state.
(b) She is leaving her husband.
(c) She is pregnant.
(d) She is dying.

3. Who does a frigid woman surround herself with in the story "Difficult Women"?
(a) Her siblings.
(b) Her work colleagues.
(c) Many different kinds of men.
(d) She has a husband and child who sometimes gang up on her.

4. Who does Caridad think she might be able to be friends with who has just moved to the Naples community?
(a) Eloise.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Marcy.
(d) Teresa.

5. What city in Florida has Marcy moved to?
(a) Pensacola.
(b) Orlando.
(c) Naples.
(d) Gables.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bianca's husband's name?

2. Where does a frigid woman go at night in the story "Difficult Women"?

3. Who abducted Savvie and Carolina when they were children?

4. What channel does Candy tell Sarah to watch for inspiration for her strip dances?

5. What happens to Carolina when she testifies in court against Mr. Peter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sarah let everyone assume she is white in the story "La Negra Blanca"?

2. What do all the women in the narrator's and Tate's "fight club" seem to get out of the experience in "Baby Arm"?

3. What does Kate's elderly landlady tell her in the story "North Country" when she meets her for the first time?

4. How does Tricia judge the clients she cleans houses for in the story "Florida"?

5. In "Difficult Women," what does Gay say a loose woman sees in the mirror and why?

6. What is the background of the narrator's boyfriend, Gus, bringing her plastic body parts in the story "Baby Arm"?

7. Why is William Livingston briefly appalled when he finds out that Sarah is mixed-race in "La Negra Blanca"?

8. Why does the narrator in "The Mark of Cain" decide not to let on that she knows her husband switches places with his twin?

9. What does Marcy like about the exercise classes in the story "Florida"?

10. Why does Bianca agree to go out with Dean and initially start a relationship with him?

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