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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 does Sal do that upsets Caridad?
(a) Sal tells Caridad she should drink more.
(b) Sal tells Caridad she is too good for her boyfriend.
(c) Sal offers to pay Caridad to take an overnight trip with him and have sex with him.
(d) Sal tells Caridad she is a bad fitness trainer.

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

3. What kind of music does William Livingston III like to listen to secretly?
(a) Punk.
(b) Rap.
(c) Jazz.
(d) Classical.

4. What is Bianca's husband's name?
(a) Doug.
(b) Darren.
(c) Don.
(d) Dean.

5. Where do people always seem to think Kate is from?
(a) Detriot.
(b) Los Angeles.
(c) Port-au-Prince.
(d) New York City.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bianca meet her husband?

2. What kind of exercise does a frigid woman do in the story "Difficult Women"?

3. What does the narrator discover at her medical appointment at the end of the story "The Mark of Cain"?

4. Where are Tricia and her family from?

5. Where does Carolina's husband work?

Short Essay Questions

1. What event eventually brings Kate and Magnus back together?

2. In the story "Difficult Women," what is it about death that makes girls more interesting?

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

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

5. Why does Sarah, who goes by Sierra at work, perform at a strip club?

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

7. Why is Alvarez hesitant to get more involved with Sarah in "La Negra Blanca," even though he adores her?

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

9. Why does the young, working-class couple watch reality television in the story "Florida"?

10. What traumatic event did Kate experience with her long-term partner before meeting Magnus?

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