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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Tristan, who appears in the final scene of "Mothers"?
(a) The narrator’s new lover.
(b) Bad’s new lover.
(c) Mara’s boyfriend.
(d) Mara’s brother.

2. What is the husband’s response when he unties the ribbon at the end of "The Husband Stitch"?
(a) He is vengefully satisfied.
(b) He is horrified and instantaneously repentant.
(c) He groans and says no.
(d) He is delighted like a child.

3. Whose ghost haunts Benson?
(a) The girl turned incorporeal.
(b) A girl who was murdered and misburied.
(c) The girl who fell off the roof with Father Jones.
(d) The girl who sleepwalked into the forest.

4. What is the term for the episode that ends "Mothers"?
(a) Flashback.
(b) Reminiscence.
(c) Foreshadowing.
(d) Flash forward.

5. When the narrator of "Mothers" and Bad are in Georgia, what does Bad say about the ocean?
(a) That it is a mother.
(b) That it is a grandmother.
(c) That it is a lesbian.
(d) That it is a baby.

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

7. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" say her husband caresses her ribbon?
(a) As if he were considering murdering her.
(b) As if he were solving a math problem.
(c) As if he were touching her sex.
(d) As if he were drawing inspiration from it.

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

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

10. How does Benson protect herself against this ghost?
(a) She sleeps with a crucifix.
(b) She burns sage.
(c) She performs an exorcism.
(d) She hires a medium.

11. What did Bad do to the narrator of "Mothers" on the "last night of us" (61)?
(a) Punched her in the face.
(b) Throw a glass of wine in her face.
(c) Told her she had always loved her.
(d) Threw her into a wall.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the girl with bells for eyes tell Benson to go?

2. What is the term for Abler and Henson?

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

4. Who is abducted by a demon?

5. How does the narrator of "The Husband Stitch" describe her lovemaking with her boyfriend?

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