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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kinds of crimes do Stabler and Benson investigate in "Especially Heinous"?
(a) Extortion, bribery, corruption.
(b) Human trafficking, prostitution.
(c) Treason, espionage, spying.
(d) Murders, rapes, missing girls.

2. What do the interns put in Stabler and Benson’s coffee?
(a) Sugar.
(b) Poison.
(c) Milk.
(d) Sleeping drugs.

3. How does Benson keep the girls-with-bells-for-eyes from her apartment?
(a) By lining the entrances with salt.
(b) By performing an exorcism.
(c) By playing loud music to cover their bells.
(d) By casting a spell.

4. What is the narrator’s husband’s response, to her answer about whether the ribbon is secret?
(a) He makes her pay for keeping it to herself.
(b) He threatens to hold her and untie it by force.
(c) He forgives her and withdraws.
(d) He falls asleep angry.

5. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say is the first mistake a woman can make?
(a) Boasting.
(b) Having a vision.
(c) Selfishness.
(d) Scoffing.

6. What does Benson typically do with her groceries?
(a) Donates them to charity.
(b) Throws them away.
(c) Eats them down to the last carrot.
(d) Gives them away.

7. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say she does for her boyfriend, which is not normal?
(a) Meets all his needs in sex.
(b) Asks him to make love before marriage.
(c) Asks him about his worst secrets.
(d) Teaches him about sex.

8. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe herself, in the "dramatis personae" section?
(a) Passionate.
(b) Forgetful.
(c) Forgettable.
(d) Memorable.

9. What does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" do to keep her son from trying to touch the ribbon?
(a) Let him hold it, warily.
(b) Shake a can of pennies.
(c) Distract him by jingling keys.
(d) Slap his hand away.

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

11. Why does the narrator of "Mothers" say Bad left her?
(a) Because Bad was broken.
(b) Because she was never around.
(c) Because she didn’t have what Bad needed.
(d) Because she asked too much.

12. 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 being tortured.
(c) Like she is welcoming her children home.
(d) Like she is bound to solve their murders, now.

13. What is the narrator inventorying in "Inventory"?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Orgasms.
(c) Lovers.
(d) Houses.

14. How frequently does the narrator’s boyfriend come over to her house, in "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) Two or three times a week.
(b) Every other month.
(c) Once or twice a month.
(d) Once a week.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Benson think the two-beat drumming is?

4. Who does Benson catch by Googling her OKCupid date?

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

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