1. What does pregnancy do to the narrator and her husband’s desire for each other, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) It frightens them.
(b) It makes them more chaste and religious.
(c) It makes them cautious and delicate.
(d) It gives them more perversities to play out.

2. What does the narrator say Benson’s fridge resembles after her grocery trip?
(a) The Garden of Eden.
(b) The rain forest.
(c) A plastic desert.
(d) A lush market.

3. What do the interns put in Stabler and Benson’s coffee?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Milk.
(c) Sleeping drugs.
(d) Poison.

4. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" dress her child as for Halloween?
(a) A lumberjack.
(b) A husband.
(c) A policeman.
(d) A professor.

5. How frequently does the narrator’s boyfriend come over to her house, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) Two or three times a week.
(b) Once a week.
(c) Once or twice a month.
(d) Every other month.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she feels like doing when she hears her husband asking the doctor for the ‘extra stitch’ after she gives birth?

2. Where is the home the narrator dreams about, in ‘Mothers’?

3. Who is Uncle E?

4. What does the daughter go out to get, in the story the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" tells, of the daughter in Paris?

5. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the second mistake a woman can make?

(see the answer key)

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