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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) Feeling her feelings in their own bodies.
(b) Singing the words to the story.
(c) Reading the story out loud.
(d) Building a set for the story.

2. How does the narrator of "Mothers" describe Bad’s baby’s eyes?
(a) Like Japanese beetles.
(b) Like police sirens.
(c) Like deer eyes.
(d) Like flashing migraine aura.

3. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she feels like doing when she hears her husband asking the doctor for the ‘extra stitch’ after she gives birth?
(a) Vomiting.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Crying.
(d) Laughing.

4. 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 sleeping together.
(d) Abler and Henson are not romantically involved.

5. How does the narrator say Benson feels when she lets the girls-with-bells-for-eyes back into her apartment?
(a) Like she had never been so loved.
(b) Like she is welcoming her children home.
(c) Like she is bound to solve their murders, now.
(d) Like she is being tortured.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. How frequently does the narrator’s boyfriend come over to her house, in "The Husband Stitch"?

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

5. When the narrator of "Mothers" and Bad are in Georgia, what does Bad say about the ocean?

(see the answer key)

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