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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 is the narrator inventorying in "Inventory"?
(a) Lovers.
(b) Houses.
(c) Orgasms.
(d) Teachers.

2. Who is abducted by a demon?
(a) Stabler’s wife.
(b) Evan the intern.
(c) Stabler.
(d) Benson.

3. How does the narrator of "Mothers" qualify her statement when she tells the baby she loves her?
(a) She says that it is a lie.
(b) She says that she will make it true.
(c) She says that it as true as she can make it.
(d) She says that it is something she wants to be true.

4. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe herself after having sex for the first time?
(a) Ruined.
(b) The same age as her mother.
(c) Newer than she has ever been.
(d) Age-old with wisdom.

5. How are Abler and Henson different from Stabler and Benson?
(a) Abler and Henson are teachers.
(b) Abler and Henson are criminals.
(c) Abler and Henson are not romantically involved.
(d) Abler and Henson are sleeping together.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her lovemaking with her boyfriend?

2. What is the husband’s response when he unties the ribbon at the end of "The Husband Stitch"?

3. What does the daughter find, when she gets back to the hotel, in the story of the daughter in Paris?

4. Where did the narrator of "Mothers" meet Bad?

5. When the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" takes an art course, she meets another woman with a ribbon—where is it?

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