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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. What metaphor does Father Jones use to compare the girl who fell off the roof?
(a) She rose like a balloon.
(b) She hit the ground like a sack of groceries.
(c) She fell like a hawk.
(d) She floated like an angel for a second before she plunged.

2. What can the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" not tell the reader, about the opening where her head was attached to her body?
(a) Whether it is repairable.
(b) Whether it is bloody or smooth.
(c) Whether or not it is fatal.
(d) Whether her head is still hers.

3. Who is Uncle E?
(a) Henson.
(b) Abler.
(c) Evan the intern.
(d) Stabler.

4. Whose ghost haunts Benson?
(a) The girl who fell off the roof with Father Jones.
(b) The girl who sleepwalked into the forest.
(c) The girl turned incorporeal.
(d) A girl who was murdered and misburied.

5. How does the narrator of "Mothers" describe Bad?
(a) Like the moon.
(b) Like a river that has been dammed.
(c) Like an ocean that washes through every breakwater.
(d) Like dirt that has never known rain.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens when Benson tries to push the girls with bells with eyes away from her?

2. How does the narrator of "Mothers" qualify her statement when she tells the baby she loves her?

3. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say her husband caresses her ribbon?

4. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" dress her child as for Halloween?

5. What does Benson hear the girls-with-bells-for-eyes saying?

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