View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one of the things the stone thrower's wife does during the day?

2. What do Father Minty and Rebekah do for dates?

3. What does Father Minty's mother seem to notice about him months after he starts seeing Rebekah?

4. What is Rebekah doing when Father Minty calls her to come see him after dinner with his mother at the end of "Bad Priest"?

5. Where does Hanna work?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Hanna and Laura first become friends?

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

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

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

8. How did Father Michael first meet Rebekah?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay analyzing the metaphors Gay uses in the story "The Sacrifice of Darkness" to explain the desperation and subjugation of the working classes. Cite specific references from the text in your answer.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay analyzing why the stone-thrower's wife, the unnamed glass woman, decides not to confront the stone-thrower about his ongoing affair with his mistress. Cite specific references from the story to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Why does the narrator in "The Mark of Cain" refrain from confronting either Caleb, her husband, or Jacob, her husband's twin brother, about the fact that they frequently trade places and pretend to be each other for lengthy periods of time? Write an essay explaining your answer, citing specific references to the text.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 882 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample