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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 1, "The Husband Stitch" - Chapter 2, "Inventory".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the moral of the story about the girl who died when her wedding dress had been exposed to embalming fluid?
(a) Some things should not be spoken.
(b) Sacred things should not be touched.
(c) Being poor will kill you.
(d) Marriage is a sacrament.

2. What does the daughter go out to get, in the story the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" tells, of the daughter in Paris?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Food.
(c) Help.
(d) Drink.

3. Where does the virus start, in "Inventory"?
(a) Minnesota.
(b) California.
(c) Nebraska.
(d) Nevada.

4. When the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" takes an art course, she meets another woman with a ribbon—where is it?
(a) Around her wrist.
(b) Around her ankle.
(c) Around her ring finger.
(d) Around her forehead.

5. What color is the narrator’s ribbon in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) Blue.
(b) Red.
(c) Yellow.
(d) Green.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" see outside the window of the car where she and her boyfriend have sex?

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

3. In the story of the pioneer husband and wife, in "The Husband Stitch," what happens to the child?

4. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe herself after having sex for the first time?

5. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she does for her boyfriend, which is not normal?

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