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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) The Pacific Northwest.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Florida.
(d) The North Country.

2. What does Ben ask Natasha repeatedly to do that is related to their dead child?
(a) Ben asks Natasha to visit their son's grave with him.
(b) Ben asks Natasha to donate their son's clothes.
(c) Ben asks Natasha to go to a therapist to talk about what happened to their son.
(d) Ben asks Natasha to say their child's name.

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

4. Where do Rebekah and Father Minty have sex for the first time?
(a) In a diner bathroom.
(b) In Father Minty's car.
(c) In the department store.
(d) In the church.

5. What does the stone thrower's wife most enjoy about her day?
(a) Cleaning her house.
(b) Stripping off her clothes and walking through the world unseen, running through the park.
(c) Repairing the cracks in her body.
(d) Visiting her family.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Father Minty and Rebekah do for dates?

2. What is Milly's best physical feature?

3. Why is the narrator of "Open Marriage" unconcerned about her husband's request for an open marriage?

4. Who is Hanna's husband?

5. What is one of the things Milly is good at?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Natasha in the story "Break All the Way Down" in her relationship with the man she calls her boyfriend?

3. How does Hanna react when she sees her mother for the first time in 16 years?

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

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

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

7. Why does Hanna drive to the college town nearby and invite sexual encounters with college-aged boys in secret?

8. What does Teresa tell Stephanie that surprises her at the end of the story "In the Event of My Father's Death"?

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

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

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