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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. Who does Hanna sometimes kiss in a romantic way?
(a) Savvie.
(b) Sarah.
(c) Carolina.
(d) Laura.

2. What is the subject of the Bible verse Father Minty's mother asks him to read at the end of "Bad Priest"?
(a) Temptation and endurance.
(b) Hypocrisy.
(c) Charity.
(d) Humility.

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

4. What does Stephanie do with Teresa after her father dies?
(a) She and Teresa go to church together.
(b) She visits Teresa at her trailer and appears to have a sexual encounter with her.
(c) She and Teresa move in together.
(d) She and Teresa start eating dinner together a few times per week.

5. What kind of a house does the stone thrower live in in the story "Requiem for a Glass Heart"?
(a) A concrete house.
(b) A wood house.
(c) A stone house.
(d) A glass house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What went wrong in Hanna's father's life?

2. Who is Stephanie's father's mistress?

3. What did Hanna do to a boy who was mistreating her twin sister in high school?

4. What special communication system do Hanna and her twin sister share?

5. Who is Hanna's twin sister's husband?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

5. How did Father Michael first meet Rebekah?

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

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

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

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

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

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