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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 3, "Mothers" - Chapter 4, "Especially Heinous".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her consciousness before she started to remember things?
(a) All sound and serenity.
(b) All color and horror.
(c) All good tastes and plenty.
(d) All contact and bliss.

2. Who is Tristan, who appears in the final scene of "Mothers"?
(a) The narrator’s new lover.
(b) Bad’s new lover.
(c) Mara’s boyfriend.
(d) Mara’s brother.

3. What does Stabler discover his wife had seen in her twenties?
(a) A river monster.
(b) A sasquatch.
(c) A hook-handed hitch-hiker.
(d) A UFO.

4. What characteristic does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say stories have?
(a) They run together like raindrops in a pond.
(b) They absorb each other’s strengths like fire.
(c) They run apart from each other like magnets pushing each other away.
(d) They drain each other like rivers taking water out of the hills.

5. At what age does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say her memory started?
(a) 11.
(b) 4.
(c) 9.
(d) 16.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the story of the daughter in Paris?

2. What TV show is "Especially Heinous" a play on?

3. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say stories can do to happiness?

4. How are Abler and Henson different from Stabler and Benson?

5. In the story of the old man and the old woman, in "The Husband Stitch," whose liver does the old woman eat?

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