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

2. What is the name of the narrator's sister's boyfriend in "I Am A Knife"?
(a) Grant.
(b) William.
(c) Bennett.
(d) Alvarez.

3. Who is the narrator's lover in "Bone Density"?
(a) Bailey.
(b) George.
(c) Jackson.
(d) Bennett.

4. When does Hanna do her best thinking in the story "How"?
(a) While she is running.
(b) In the mid-afternoon as she drinks her coffee.
(c) In the early morning.
(d) Late at night when everyone else in the house is asleep.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does David do with the narrator when they go for a walk in the snowy woods?

3. How does Father Minty first meet Rebekah?

4. What defines the weather in the story "Bone Density"?

5. How does the stone thrower's wife feel about her child with the stone thrower?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. How did Father Michael first meet Rebekah?

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

6. What is appealing to Rebekah about her affair with Father Michael?

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

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

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

10. How did Hanna and Laura first become friends?

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