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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 daughter find, when she gets back to the hotel, in the story of the daughter in Paris?
(a) Her mother is better.
(b) Her mother is gone.
(c) Her mother is dead.
(d) Her mother has all the help she needed.

2. In the story of the pioneer husband and wife, in "The Husband Stitch," what happens to the child?
(a) She turns feral.
(b) She dies.
(c) She becomes a wood nymph.
(d) She is rescued by gypsies.

3. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" see outside the window of the car where she and her boyfriend have sex?
(a) An old crone.
(b) Artists drawing.
(c) A hook-handed man.
(d) A group of campers.

4. When the narrator’s husband asks if the ribbon is secret, what does she tell him?
(a) She says that it is a secret.
(b) She says that it is not secret, it is just hers.
(c) She says that he can untie it in time.
(d) She says that it is not hers to give him.

5. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the boy she meets in the beginning of the story?
(a) Aloof.
(b) High-maintenance.
(c) Fine.
(d) Craggy.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is the narrator at the beginning of "The Husband Stitch"?

2. How long is it, after the doctor says that he might have to perform a Caesarean section delivery, that the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" gives birth?

3. What lesson does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" learn after she gives birth?

4. At what age does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say her memory started?

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

(see the answer key)

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