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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. How does Jack get to Milly's apartment?
(a) He rides his bike.
(b) He drives.
(c) He takes the bus.
(d) He walks.

2. Why is the narrator of "Open Marriage" unconcerned about her husband's request for an open marriage?
(a) Because she is already having an affair.
(b) Because he gets ideas but rarely follows through on them.
(c) Because he is not very attractive.
(d) Because he works too much to have time for an affair.

3. The narrator refers to herself as a knife. What does she refer to her husband as?
(a) An axe.
(b) A hammer.
(c) A gun.
(d) A blanket.

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

5. What did Hanna do to a boy who was mistreating her twin sister in high school?
(a) Bit on his penis, and threatened him.
(b) Drugged him and gave him a terrible tattoo.
(c) Picked him up in her car, drove him hours into the woods, and left him there.
(d) Held a gun to his head and told him never to touch her sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Stephanie do with Teresa after her father dies?

2. What is the name of the narrator's sister's boyfriend in "I Am A Knife"?

3. Where does Stephanie's father take her on Saturday mornings in the story "In the Event of my Father's Death"?

4. How old is Hanna?

5. What does the narrator of "Bone Density" do for a living?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is the narrator's husband, David, concerned about in relation to the narrator's health in the story "Bone Density"?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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