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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 Father Minty's mother seem to notice about him months after he starts seeing Rebekah?
(a) She seems to notice he is thinner.
(b) She seems to notice he is losing his hair.
(c) She seems to notice that something is different and suspects it might have to do with a woman.
(d) She seems to notice he is taking more care with his appearance.

2. How old were Hanna and her twin sister when their mother left the family?
(a) About 16.
(b) About 11.
(c) About 4.
(d) About 6.

3. What do the narrator and her husband pour over themselves when they go deer hunting in the story "I Am a Knife"?
(a) Deer pee.
(b) Whiskey.
(c) Gin.
(d) Rabbit blood.

4. How long after meeting did the stone thrower and the glass woman get married?
(a) 11 months and 10 days.
(b) 1 month and 1 day.
(c) 14 months and 8 days.
(d) 7 months and 7 days.

5. What kind of a professor is David, the narrator's husband?
(a) Mathematics.
(b) Philosophy.
(c) Mechanical and biomedical engineering.
(d) English.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hanna's husband?

2. What do Ben and Natasha do with the baby they have been given to care for?

3. What is Milly's best physical feature?

4. Where does Hanna's husband work?

5. What is the subject of the Bible verse Father Minty's mother asks him to read at the end of "Bad Priest"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator in "Open Marriage" seem confident her husband will not follow through on his aspirations to have affairs with other women?

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

3. Why did Father Michael Patrick Minty not really know his father in the story" Bad Priest"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does the reader learn about the stone thrower through the eyes of his glass wife at the end of the story?

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