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

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

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

4. 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) Rabbit blood.
(c) Deer pee.
(d) Whiskey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What defines the weather in the story "Bone Density"?

2. Who is Hanna's father?

3. How long after meeting did the stone thrower and the glass woman get married?

4. What does the narrator's lover do for a living in "Bone Density"?

5. What does Stephanie do with Teresa after her father dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What secret of her own does the narrator keep from her unfaithful husband David in "Bone Density"?

2. What does the narrator of "Bone Density" find in her husband's suitcase that confirms her knowledge that he is having an affair?

3. Why does the narrator's mother in the story "A Pat" tell her to befriend the saddest and most desperate people?

4. What does Father Michael realize at the end of "Bad Priest" about his mother's knowledge of his private life?

5. What unique ability do Hanna and Anna share?

6. How does Hanna feel about her husband Peter in the short story "How"?

7. What is appealing to Rebekah about her affair with Father Michael?

8. Where does the stone thrower first meet his glass wife in the story "Requiem for a Glass Heart"?

9. What Bible story did Nora Minty, Father Michael's mother, tell to Father Michael many times?

10. What does Natasha finally do that her husband has repeatedly been asking her to do at the end of "Break All the Way Down"?

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