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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 kind of music does William Livingston III like to listen to secretly?
(a) Jazz.
(b) Classical.
(c) Punk.
(d) Rap.
2. What university does Sarah attend?
(a) American University.
(b) Johns Hopkins.
(c) University of Maryland.
(d) Georgetown University.
3. What do the twins in ""The Mark of Cain" do for a living?
(a) They are chefs who started a restaurant together.
(b) They work at an architecture firm they started together.
(c) They are painters.
(d) They are lawyers who started their own firm together.
4. What does Alvarez imagine his daughter's name will be?
(a) Eloise.
(b) Carmella.
(c) Estrella.
(d) Abigail.
5. What effect does death have on girls in the story "Difficult Women"?
(a) It makes them ugly.
(b) It makes them more interesting and beautiful.
(c) It makes them sorrowful.
(d) It makes them repugnant.
Short Answer Questions
1. What trauma has Kate suffered before she meets her new boyfriend in Michigan?
2. Where does a frigid woman go at night in the story "Difficult Women"?
3. What kinds of services does the spa in the gated community in Naples offer that cause consternation among some residents?
4. What is one of Savvie's boyfriend's annoying habits?
5. What does Sal do that upsets Caridad?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Sal do to Caridad in the story "Florida" that upsets and offends Caridad?
2. Why does Magnus get angry with Kate and ignore her calls for weeks?
3. Why is William Livingston briefly appalled when he finds out that Sarah is mixed-race in "La Negra Blanca"?
4. What do all the women in the narrator's and Tate's "fight club" seem to get out of the experience in "Baby Arm"?
5. What traumatic event did Kate experience with her long-term partner before meeting Magnus?
6. What do Bianca's parents do with her when she is a baby?
7. Why does the young, working-class couple watch reality television in the story "Florida"?
8. What is the real reason that Carolina insists Savvie accompany her to find Darryl in Reno?
9. What does Kate's elderly landlady tell her in the story "North Country" when she meets her for the first time?
10. What shocking realization does the narrator come to at the end of "The Mark of Cain"?
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