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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 defines the weather in the story "Bone Density"?
(a) Sun.
(b) Tornadoes.
(c) Snow and cold.
(d) Extreme heat.

2. What secret of the stone thrower's does the stone thrower's glass wife discover?
(a) She discovers he goes to the bar to drink during the day.
(b) She discovers he stays outside their son's school and watches their son for hours.
(c) She discovers he is having an affair.
(d) She discovers he is unemployed.

3. Who is Hanna's mother?
(a) Anna.
(b) Eloise.
(c) Laura.
(d) Ilse.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does Hanna do her best thinking in the story "How"?

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

3. How does Jack get to Milly's apartment?

4. What do Ben and Natasha do with all of the things from their son's nursery?

5. What does Ben ask Natasha repeatedly to do that is related to their dead child?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What unique ability do Hanna and Anna share?

8. How did Father Michael first meet Rebekah?

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

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