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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. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she feels when the boy "breaks" her?
(a) Being abducted.
(b) Lost at sea.
(c) Arriving home.
(d) Lost in a forest.

2. What does Benson hear the girls-with-bells-for-eyes saying?
(a) Murder our murderers.
(b) Give us voices.
(c) Let us rest.
(d) Take us home.

3. Where do the narrator and her husband go after their wedding, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) South America.
(b) California.
(c) Europe.
(d) Asia.

4. What does the narrator compare the girls-with-bells-for-eyes to?
(a) Picasso’s portraits of women.
(b) Diego Rivera’s peasants.
(c) Dali’s melted clocks.
(d) Diane Arbus portraits.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the interns put in Stabler and Benson’s coffee?

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

3. How frequently does Benson buy groceries?

4. When the narrator of "Mothers" takes the baby from Bad, what does she fail to hear?

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

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