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

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

3. Who leaves her baby with Natasha in the story "Break All the Way Down"?
(a) Anna Lisa.
(b) Miriam.
(c) Joy.
(d) Riley.

4. What special communication system do Hanna and her twin sister share?
(a) They have different pitches of whistles that mean different things.
(b) They have a special twin language.
(c) They use their own hand gestures only they understand.
(d) They can read each others' thoughts.

5. What is one of the things Milly is good at?
(a) She is a good listener.
(b) She is a good hairdresser.
(c) She is a good cook.
(d) She is a good masseuse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of a house does the stone thrower live in in the story "Requiem for a Glass Heart"?

2. How old is Hanna?

3. What happened to Natasha's child in "Break All the Way Down"?

4. How did Father Minty's own father die?

5. What secret of the stone thrower's does the stone thrower's glass wife discover?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the stone thrower's wife enjoy most about her days?

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

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

4. Why is Natasha in "Break All the Way Down" repelled by dogs?

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

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

7. Why does Natasha seem to feel responsible for her child's fatal accident in "Break All the Way Down"?

8. What unique ability do Hanna and Anna share?

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

10. What helps to bring Natasha and Ben back together in "Break All the Way Down"?

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