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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 does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" give the reader instructions for?
(a) Building a set for the story.
(b) Feeling her feelings in their own bodies.
(c) Singing the words to the story.
(d) Reading the story out loud.

2. What characteristic does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say stories have?
(a) They absorb each other’s strengths like fire.
(b) They drain each other like rivers taking water out of the hills.
(c) They run together like raindrops in a pond.
(d) They run apart from each other like magnets pushing each other away.

3. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her consciousness before she started to remember things?
(a) All good tastes and plenty.
(b) All color and horror.
(c) All sound and serenity.
(d) All contact and bliss.

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

5. How do Stabler and Benson record their successes?
(a) By nothing their furniture.
(b) By notching their pistol grips.
(c) By donating to a charity.
(d) By going for drinks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe the story of the daughter in Paris?

2. What part of the baby is the narrator of "Mothers" most afraid of?

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

4. What kinds of crimes do Stabler and Benson investigate in "Especially Heinous"?

5. How does the narrator say Benson feels when she lets the girls-with-bells-for-eyes back into her apartment?

(see the answer key)

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